Question In our AlwayOn environment I have two SQL servers 2014 Ent.edition (SERVER A, and SERVER B). I setup a transaction replication for [database A ], pointing to listener which shouldn’t cause any issue if a failover happened. Tested, worked just fine after a failover, … [Read More]
Question I have like 20 Listners on 2014 with approx 500 DBS, what is the best way to migrate these with least downtime, effort My idea is: Stop access Backup dbs Start restore dbs While restore is running: Drop AOG on 2014 Create it on … [Read More]
Have you ever wondered what the best option is for making your data available in your environment? I was asked by Carlos L Chacon (blog|twitter) to be part of a panel on his podcast for an episode discussing some of the options–availability groups, mirroring, log shipping, and replication. We … [Read More]
Question We are planning a migration from current mirroring architecture to Availability Groups for several databases. For every Database we have defined the primary/secondary replica configuration. The question that I’m unsure is: do we need to group the databases with the same primary/secondary configuration into … [Read More]
Question ReportserverTempdb logfile is 6TB in size and growing and I need help. I am supporting a huge reporting server farm and the client wants reporting services to be in AlawysON Availability group(AAG) and we configured reportserver and reportserverTempDB on in three node Primary replica, … [Read More]
FILESTREAM is not a particularly popular feature of SQL Server–if you’re using it, you are in the minority. If you have a database with filestream in an Availability Group, then you’re REALLY in the minority. At my 9-5, this is being done, and it’s apparent that … [Read More]
Question Imagine we have two nodes participating in SQL 2012 AO. This is a test instance. During one of the index rebuild operation the log was grown up really big (250 GB). We are unable to back it up due to space constraint. What if … [Read More]
Availability Groups (AGs) are all the rage these days. Every SQL Saturday, every local Users Group, bloggers and DBAs everywhere are all talking about how cool they are. There’s a lot of talk about how AGs provide a compelling alternative to Failover Cluster Instances (FCIs). … [Read More]
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