AlwaysOn

In the last 2 blog postings you have learned how to setup your first Availability Group with SQL Server 2012. Today I want to show you how you can join an additional Replica to an existing Availability Group. When you have followed the last 3 blog postings, you should have now an Availability Group called …

SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Groups – Part 4: Adding new Replicas + read more

In the last blog posting about AlwaysOn you have seen how you can deploy your first Availability Group through the AlwaysOn wizard provided by SQL Server Management Studio 2012. As usual this approach is very handy during development or testing, but as soon as you want to move your Availability Group into production, you need …

SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Groups – Part 3: Setting up AlwaysOn through T-SQL + read more

It’s already a long time since I have blogged how to configure your Windows- and SQL Servers for SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn. In the last 3 months I was almost every week on the road (or better in the air) visiting a lot of different clients across Europe, and helped them with their SQL Server …

SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Groups – Part 2 + read more

In the last weeks and months I have prepared tons of SQL Server 2012 content for my own SQL Server 2012 Deep Dive Days workshop that I’m currently running across Europe. Because this content shows in a very good way how you can use all the various new features of SQL Server 2012, I have …

SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Groups – Part 1 + read more