We are all living in a fast moving world, especially in the IT industry. We have to learn new technologies every few months and must keep our knowledge up-2-date to be competitive. A lot of us are learning through reading, and a lot of us are also learning through watching web casts and training videos. …
SQL Server Quickies – a new way to learn about SQL Server + read more
Yesterday evening (European Time zone) Microsoft has released the SP2 for SQL Server 2008 R2. You can download the Service Pack here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30437 Because I’m currently working on a Database Mirroring Test Lab that is based on SQL Server 2008, I thought it would be a good exercise to perform a Rolling Upgrade to SP2 …
Perform a Rolling Upgrade to SQL Server 2008 R2 SP2 in a Database Mirroring Scenario + read more
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
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