This article is a continuation of a guide where we are checking all the available backup preferences for a database contained in an Availability Group.
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Murilo Miranda is a Luso-Brazilian blogger and speaker. SQL Server MVP, living in the UK. Nowadays he's Database Consultant at Pythian, company based in Ottawa - Canada.
With experience working in Portugal, Holland, Germany and United Kingdom, he's always available to learn and share his knowledge, in order to contribute to SQL Server community,
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With experience working in Portugal, Holland, Germany and United Kingdom, he's always available to learn and share his knowledge, in order to contribute to SQL Server community,
View all posts by Murilo Miranda
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- Understanding backups on AlwaysOn Availability Groups – Part 2 - December 3, 2015
- Understanding backups on AlwaysOn Availability Groups – Part 1 - November 30, 2015
- AlwaysOn Availability Groups – Curiosities to make your job easier – Part 4 - October 13, 2015
Understanding backups on AlwaysOn Availability Groups – Part 1
November 30, 2015Since the AlwaysOn Availabiliy Groups feature was introduced, we got new options to make the backups strategy more complete, but also more complex. Taking an advantage of secondary replicas, we can offload both, the FULL and even the Transaction Log backups from the Primary Replica to the Secondary, leaving the Primary replica dedicated to serve the production application.
Read more »AlwaysOn Availability Groups – Curiosities to make your job easier – Part 4
October 13, 2015Here we are with the last part of this series of articles! In this article we are going to see two curiosities:
- How does in-memory OLTP work with Availability Group?
- Can I migrate from Log Shipping or Database Mirroring to Availability Groups?
So, let’s start!
Read more »AlwaysOn Availability Groups – Curiosities to make your job easier – Part 3
October 9, 2015In continuation to the Availability Groups series, here you have another curiosity coming to make your job easier and help you to provide a solution to your customers 🙂
This time we will be talking about listeners. Basically, we will be talking about the limitation of one listener per Availability Group. If you never tested / tried this, this is what happens when you already have a listener in the Availability Group, and try to create another one:
Read more »AlwaysOn Availability Groups – Curiosities to make your job easier – Part 2
October 6, 2015In continuation to the previous article, where we talked about what happens when I add a readable secondary and why there are different options to control connections to the AG, it’s time to continue and demystify more curiosities about the beloved Availability Groups!
Read more »AlwaysOn Availability Groups – Curiosities to make your job easier – Part 1
September 7, 2015We all love Availability Groups! Since its introduction in the SQL Server 2012, some things changed. In the beginning it was seen as “just a replacement for the database mirroring”, but when we discovered that this would support readable secondary’s, the possibility of having a listener and get rid of the shared storage – even being based on a Failover Cluster – we saw that Availability Groups is a special feature. Read more »
Cloud Witness – A new feature to make our lives easier
September 4, 2015In order to have a well-configured cluster we need to setup the quorum properly, but there’s more…Here is where the Cloud Witness comes to help.
In this article, I’m going to present something that would be very useful if was already been released, but no, I need to anxiously wait for the next version of Windows Server to be released, in order to start implementing this. Even though, I’m going to share with you, SQL Shack reader, why I’m so excited with that small and simple feature.
Read more »Low cost disaster recovery solution using Azure
August 31, 2015We already talked a lot about Azure and hybrid deployments on this. In order to better understand this article I suggest the reading of the article “Azure Blob Storage – Placing database files in the cloud”, as the presented solution will be based on the same approach.
Read more »Stretch Database – The art of extend to reduce
August 7, 2015Let’s continue the hybrid saga! After two articles talking about the Azure Blob Storage and what we can do using it, it’s time to check an alternative solution, that does the same of what was presented in the last article (a Hybrid Database used as archival solution for who didn’t read). This time we are not using the Azure Blob Storage, but we are still using Azure!
The feature is…Stretch Database
Read more »Azure Blob Storage – Literally a Hybrid database deployment
August 4, 2015In continuation to our hybrid deployment series, we will check few more options in order to integrate on-premises and Azure, using of course SQL Server.
In the last article we talked about Azure Blob Storage and how to use this service to store a SQL Server database entirely there. Meaning that we can have our instance in our datacenter, see the server in front of you, and still have your database stored in the cloud, with your data and log files out of your disks.
Read more »Azure Blob Storage – Placing database files in the cloud
July 31, 2015Do you know that since SQL Server 2012 you can have your entire database stored in Azure, even if you have your server on-premises? This article will introduce you to this capability, showing the basic steps to allow your instance to be in contact with your Azure Blob Storage Account.
Read more »Backups to Azure – How can I do this?
July 3, 2015With the evolution of the Cloud, specifically talking about Azure, SQL Server team started to take advantage of the new opened horizon. We already discussed pros and cons of send backups to Azure, now let’s check how to do this!
Following the “Hybrid Scenarios series”, we already discussed about the connectivity options, and pros and cons of store our backup files in Azure.
In this article, we will specifically talk about the two options that we currently have, involving Azure: Blob Storage and Managed Backups.
Read more »Backups to Azure – Why I would do this?
July 2, 2015With the evolution of the Cloud, specifically talking about Azure, SQL Server team started to take advantage of the new opened horizon. In this article we will discuss about backups. What are the pros and cons of store your backup files in Azure?
Read more »SQL Server + Azure: Introduction to Hybrid scenarios
July 1, 2015We hear a lot about hybrid SQL Server environments, but how to integrate my datacenter with Azure? Check this article and you will have a simple and effective explanation about the connectivity option!
Read more »In-Memory OLTP – The faster is now simpler!
May 29, 2015In-memory OLTP is a revolutionary tool introduced on SQL Server 2014. On SQL Server 2016 this will be even better, with a broader surface of supported tools. Check this article to know the news.
Read more »AlwaysOn Availability Groups – How to setup AG between a clustered and standalone instance (Part 3)
May 12, 2015We have already configured our Availability Group, now we need to make it flexible and accessible. It’s time to check on how to create a listener in order to make a single access point for you AG!
In continuation to our previous article, we are going to pass to another phase of this setup, as we already have our database in sync and safe, or highly available, depending of the chosen mode/architecture.
Read more »AlwaysOn Availability Groups – How to setup AG between a clustered and standalone instance (Part 2)
May 11, 2015In continuation to the part 1, on how to setup a SQL Server Availability Groups, let’s now check how to create the Availability Group itself and put the databases in sync.
Read more »AlwaysOn Availability Groups – How to setup AG between a clustered and standalone instance (Part 1)
April 24, 2015In this article we are going to explore how to configure an Availability Group between a clustered instance and a standalone instance, showing, step-by-step, how to setup a possible Disaster Recovery environment.
Introduced on SQL Server 2012, the Availability Groups brought the expectation to be an improved version of the database mirroring, which will be discontinued soon. The AlwaysOn Availability Groups was improved on SQL Server 2014, giving the capability of have more replicas, better troubleshooting possibilities and improving its availability. Comparing the Availability Groups with the database mirroring, in a very high level, we gained the possibility of have a listener to dynamically redirect the connection to the current active instance and also the capability of distribute the read workload between readable replicas. However, only the primary replica is able to write.
Read more »SQL Server 2014 – Install a clustered instance – step-by-step (3/3)
March 12, 2015This article is divided in three parts, if you started here, check the first and second part to find the previous steps.
Now we need to define if the instance will work in “Windows Authentication Mode” or “Mixed Mode”. I usually choose “Mixed Mode” because there’s always an application that don’t work with domain accounts. By choosing this option you need to specify the password for the famous “sa” login. Notice that you can change the authentication mode anytime! You also need to add accounts to receive the Sysadmin privilege, this is very important… Even more if you choose the “Windows Authentication Mode”.
Read more »SQL Server 2014 – Install a clustered instance – step-by-step (2/3)
March 11, 2015This article is divided in three parts, if you started here, check the first part to find the previous steps.
Read more »SQL Server 2014 – Install a clustered instance – step-by-step (1/3)
March 9, 2015Do you want to install a SQL Server 2014 clustered instance? Not sure how to proceed? What are the requisites? This series of articles will show this, step-by-step.
In this article I’m going to explain, step-by-step, how to install clustered SQL Server instance. The SQL Server version that we will be using is the 2014, or SQL Server 12, the latest SQL Server version, so far…
Read more »Integrate On-Premises and Azure using a site-to-site VPN with RRAS (step-by-step)
March 3, 2015In order to connect on- premise and Azure we have two options, a point-to-site and a site-to-site VPN. On this article I will be showing how to configure a site-to-site VPN using a routing and remote access, step-by-step.
Read more »In-Memory OLTP – Three key points to entertain your watchdog – Bucket Count
February 24, 2015When creating a hash index in a memory optimized table we need to define a value for the bucket count. Think twice before set a random value, you may pay the price later… On this article we will explain the effects of a bad defined bucket count and how to monitor it.
Read more »In-Memory OLTP – Three key points to entertain your watchdog – Checkpoint Files
February 5, 2015In sequence of the first article about the server memory importance, we will check another In-Memory OLTP key point: The Checkpoint files. Check what wrong can happen, and how to avoid this!
Read more »In-Memory OLTP – Three key points to entertain your watchdog
February 4, 2015With the introduction of the in-memory technology, we need to think about what are the new challenges to keep the service up and running. In this article I will explore one of the three key points to monitor in order to maintain your SQL Server healthy.
Last week I spoke at my local SQL Server user group, in Lisbon. The session was nice and the good feedback received encouraged me to write about this and share information that is not too spread over the internet (so far…): Monitor environments using In-Memory OLTP.
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