High availability

Dbvisit Standby Archive Log Daemon

Dbvisit Standby version 8 comes with a nice feature, a daemon, which gives the benefit to send and apply the archive log automatically in the background. Bypassing the system scheduling, the daemon will facilitate customer RPO (Recovery Point Objective) and(…)

Introducing SQL Server on Docker Swarm orchestration

SQL Server 2017 is available on multiple platforms: Windows, Linux and Docker. The latter provides containerization features with no lengthy setup and special prerequisites before running your SQL Server databases which are probably the key success of adoption for developers.

24 HOP French edition 2017 – Session videos are available

The 2nd edition of 24HOP French Edition 2017 is over and we had great sessions about SQL Server and various topics ( SQL Server 2017 new features, Azure, PowerBI, High Availability , Linux, Hyper-convergence , Modeling …) If(…)

SQL Server 2017 high availability and Resumable Online Indexes

Ensuring data availability is an important part of the high availability design. SQL Server AlwaysOn features including SQL Server FCIs and availability groups address some aspects of the problem but we may also rely on the online operations features to(…)

Prochaine édition des 24 HOP 2017 francophone

La prochaine édition du 24 Hours of PASS 2017 edition francophone se déroulera les 29-30 juin prochain. Pour rappel le format est simple: 24 webinars gratuits répartis sur 2 jours de 07:00 à 18h00 GMT et en(…)

SQL Server 2017 on Linux and some log shipping scenarios

In this blog let’s talk a little bit about the log-shipping feature from the SQL Server CTP 2.0. First of all, let’s say that as a Windows version, it is possible to create our own solution based on Linux (and(…)

SQL Server 2017 AlwaysOn AGs and new read-scale architectures

As you probably know Microsoft announced an official name for SQL Server vNext during the last Microsoft Data Amp event on April 19 2017. It becomes officially SQL Serve 2017. In my first(…)

Vertically scale your PostgreSQL infrastructure with pgpool – 3 – Adding another standby

In the first and second post in this series we did the basic pgpool setup including the watchdog configuration and then did a simple setup for automatically failover from a PostgreSQL master instance in case it(…)

Vertically scale your PostgreSQL infrastructure with pgpool – 2 – Automatic failover and reconfiguration

In the first post of this little series we did the basic setup of pgpool and configured the watchdog. So, as of now, pgpool uses a VIP which is active on one of the(…)

Vertically scale your PostgreSQL infrastructure with pgpool – 1 – Basic setup and watchdog configuration

I have written some posts on how you can make your PostgreSQL deployment high available by using PostgreSQL's streaming replication feature in the past ( 1, 2 ). The main issue you'll have to(…)