In my first blog about availability groups with SQL Server 2016, I talked quickly about the new interesting option: DB_FAILOVER. In this blog post, I will continue by introducing the new potential support of availability groups in a standard edition (based on the last Microsoft Ignit news). Yes, this sounds a great news because it will increase the scope of…
A couple of days ago, I faced a weird backup issue with SQL Server AlwaysOn and availability groups at one of my customer (thank to him to point out this issue 🙂 ). After installing our DMK tool (Database Management Kit) about database maintenance for AlwaysOn, my customer noticed that their databases have not backed up. Ouch … what’s going…
After giving my session about SQL Server AlwaysOn and availability groups at the last French event “Les journées SQL Server 2014”, I had several questions concerning the port conflict issues, particularly the differences that exist between FCIs and availability groups (AAGs) on this subject. In fact, in both cases, we may have port conflicts depending on which components that are…
During a workshop at one of my customer about the implementation of SQL Server AlwaysOn and availability groups, I had an interesting discussion. It was about asynchronous replication between 2 replicas and the effect of the forced failover operation with allowed data loss. Does SQL Server resynchronize availability databases if I loose some transactions during the failover process? The quick…
Today it’s the real beginning of the TechEd with several sessions in parallel.
