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Adding Replicas into existing Availability Groups

Last week I have blogged about how you can run the Availability Group traffic through a different network card. In today’s blog posting I want to talk about some side effects of this approach when you want to add a new Replica into an existing Availability Group. Add new Replicas SQL Server Management Studio is …

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How to run the Availability Group Traffic on a different NIC

When you deploy a new SQL Server Availability Group, the synchronization traffic between all replicas is routed by default always through your default network card. In today’s blog posting I want to show you how you can configure your SQL Server Availability Group, so that the network traffic goes through a dedicated different network card. …

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Automatic Seeding & Compression

Last week I have talked about the basic concepts behind Automatic Seeding in SQL Server 2016 Availability Groups. In today’s blog posting I want to continue by talking about Compression optimizations available in combination with Automatic Seeding. How do I enable Compression? If you are using Automatic Seeding when you add replicas or new databases …

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Automatic Seeding in Always On Availability Groups in SQL Server 2016

Over the last few weeks I have done a lot of work in the area of Always On Availability Groups, and therefore I had also the chance to test drive the Automatic Seeding option that is available beginning with SQL Server 2016. In today’s blog posting I want to give you an overview about what …

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How to create a SQL Server Availability Group WITHOUT an Active Directory Domain

SQL Server Availability Groups were introduced back with SQL Server 2012. They are an awesome replacement for Database Mirroring (introduced back with SQL Server 2005 SP1), but with one huge limitation: the nodes on which the replicas are hosted must be part of the same Windows cluster. This doesn’t sound that at first, but a …

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