Add a Second NIC for an Availability Group to Separate Network Traffic

Introduction Sometimes we face the scenario in an enterprise environment that the database in SQL Server Always On Availability Group (AOAG) has high concurrency read and write access from application servers. If we keep using the one network interface card for both network traffic of database connections from application servers and database mirroring between AOAG […]

MSSQL Server AlwaysON: Get alerted for inconsistencies in logins, jobs and databases

This script will create the necessary login and linked servers on a given availability replica. Please ensure that the script is executed on all the replicas.

Endpoint Authentication Order

Mirroring Endpoint Authentication

Always On Availability Groups Troubleshooting and Monitoring Guide

This guide helps you get started on troubleshooting some of the common issues in AlwaysOn Availability Groups and monitoring AlwaysOn Availability Groups. It is intended to provide original content as well as a landing page of useful information that is already published elsewhere.

A Step by Step Guide to the Availability Group (AG) Listener

Availability databases hosted on SQL Server Always On Availability Groups (AG) can be connected using a unique Virtual Network Name (VNN), called the Availability Group Listener. When an Availability Group is enabled, clients can connect to databases in both primary and secondary replicas without explicitly specifying the SQL Server instance name. You don’t even need […]

Configuring Availability Groups in Ubuntu

In this article, we will review how to configure Always On Availability Groups in Ubuntu Server using the Pacemaker cluster. The following are the high-level steps to configure Always On Availability Groups (AOAG) with an Ubuntu server. Install SQL Server on Ubuntu 16.04 Install Pacemaker agents and configure the cluster Create Always On Availability Groups Create […]

Always on AG Dashboard report

This script can be used to generate Dashboard report for Always-on AG databases. Script can be placed in SQL Agent to generate report.

A Step by Step Guide to the Availability Group (AG) Listener

Availability databases hosted on SQL Server Always On Availability Groups (AG) can be connected using a unique Virtual Network Name (VNN), called the Availability Group Listener. When an Availability Group is enabled, clients can connect to databases in both primary and secondary replicas without explicitly specifying the SQL Server instance name. You don’t even need […]