Last time, I discussed how to meet high-availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) using four stand-alone SQL Server instances in an Availability Group. In this post, I will add SQL Server Failover Cluster Instances to the mix and cut the…
Last time, I discussed the simplest Availability Group architecture, with only a single site. In this post I will expand upon the same architecture, adding in a second site to achieve more than just high-availability. Cross sub-net availability group In…
Availability groups offer us a variety of features. They offer high-availability (HA), they can give disaster recovery (DR), and they have connectivity and off-loading features but we have to decide how to use them. This is the first of a four-part…
Each month, on the first Tuesday of the month, the announcement for the blog party T-SQL Tuesday comes out. Those that are interested then post their blogs, on the subject selected, on the second Tuesday of the month. If you’ve…
Keeping up with new features of SQL Server can be a challenge. What is even more challenging, though, is keeping up with changes to existing features. Re-reading Microsoft books online is tedious and differences between versions are not always easy…
The standard backup strategy seems to always include backups running at midnight, hoping that they complete before anyone starts using the applications. There is value in performing maintenance on off-hours. However, many applications do not have off-hours or our databases grow…
Author Bio: Priyanka Chouhan is a technical writer in Stellar Data Recovery with 5 years of experience and has written several articles on SQL server & SharePoint. In her spare time she loves reading and gardening. Identifying and handling blocked processes in SQL…
Today I’d like to recommend a free community tool, StatisticsParser.com. Statistics Parser is web-based tool for interpreting the text output of the T-SQL SET STATISTICS IO and TIME settings. The tool was created and is maintained by Richie Rump (b…
Here are two snippets that I use often to search for objects on a variety of servers. The first will search any object within a database and the second will search various elements of SQL Agent jobs. Object search [sql]USE…
After you provision a Microsoft Azure VM with SQL Server there are a few more steps that you need to take to make remote connections. The procedure below starts with a fresh Azure VM provisioned and walks through the process…