May Updates for SQL Server Cumulative Update #11 for SQL Server 2008 SP3 is now available. KB Article: KB #2834048. Build Number is 10.00.5840. Applicable to @@VERSION 10.00.5500 through 10.00.5435. Release announcement from blogs.msdn.com.
How to: Configure SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Using the Availability Group Listener In this, final, section of the AlwaysOn blog series I will be explaining the Availability Group (AG) listener and how it can be used to off-load some server…
How to: Configure SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn How to: Fail-over In this part of the blog series we will go over the various methods of manually failing over an Availability Group. Naturally if you are using automatic fail-over then there…
How to: Configure SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Explanation of Components Now that we have our AlwaysOn configuration setup I’d like to go over some of the components. Some are very self explanatory such as the Availability Replicas, Databases, and Group…
The other day I was doing some research on the Transaction Log of SQL Server and stumbled upon the MS SQL Server MCM Readiness videos, many of which are made by Paul Randal. After watching just one of these videos…
How to: Configure SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Setting up an Availability Group The AlwaysOn Availability Group is a logical group of databases that you want to fail-over to your secondary site together. It is also a Windows Cluster Resource and…
SQL Server 2012 RTM Cumulative Update # 7 KB Article: KB #2823247 Build number is 11.0.2405 Applicable to @@VERSION 11.0.2100 through 11.0.2401 SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 2 Cumulative Update # 6 KB Article: KB #2830140 Build number is 10.50.4279 Applicable…
How to: Configure SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Enabling the AlwaysOn Feature Quick post on how to enable the AlwaysOn feature at the database instance level. This needs to be accomplished for each instance involved in the architecture. In our target…
Brent Ozar’s sp_Blitz v18 has been released. For those of you unfamiliar with sp_blitz I highly recommend not only downloading it but also watching Brent’s video explanation and reading all of his documentation on it. sp_Blitz is a great way…
How to: Configure SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Building the Environment When building our environment there is an assumption of basic familiarity with Windows Failover Clustering. The following will begin with a Windows Failover Cluster configured with 2 nodes, a shared…