Always On - Endpoint Ownership

Whoever creates an AlwaysOn group is, by default, the owner of the endpoint. This is generally not a problem…unless that person leaves the company and you need to delete the login.

Azure SQL Database High Availability

Site-wide or region-wide disasters, while undoubtedly more impactful, happen considerably less frequently than downtime resulting from scheduled maintenance events or isolated hardware and software faults. This article provides an overview of the high availability features of Azure SQL Database that mitigate risks affecting services within an individual Azure datacenter, rather than an entire Azure region.

Log Shipping

The BAG Secondary

No More Downtime

Windows is improving its ability to be patched without downtime.

What's Downtime?

Steve asks the question today of how you might measure downtime and the scope you are concerned about.

HA HA HA

Crossword puzzle focusing on high availability

AG Sync Folders

Configuring Backups Using Veritas Netbackup with AGs

A short description of our experience with Veritas Netbackup on MS SQL Server AG Groups. This article does not give a full description of the procedure for configuring netbackup but highlights a few pitfalls which we think some people will find very useful.

The Connection to the Primary Replica is not Active

In this article, I’m going to talk an issue that I found when joining replica or database on secondary replica to availability group.