distributed availability group

SQL Server AlwaysOn – Distributed availability groups, read-only with round-robin capabilities

This blog post comes from a very interesting discussion with one of my friends about the read-only capabilities of secondary replicas in the context of distributed availability groups. Initially, distributed availability groups are designed to address(…)

SQL Server 2016: distributed availability groups and cascaded replicas

During the last MVP summit, we had some interesting discussions about availability groups with the SQL Server team and I remember someone asked for managing scenarios like Oracle cascaded destinations and the good news is that(…)

SQL Server 2016 AlwaysOn: distributed availability groups

This time, I will talk about distributed availability groups. What’s that? In short, a group of availability groups. Sounds good right? But in which cases may we need such architecture? Firstly, let’s say that(…)