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 […]

Basic Availability Groups

Do *not* place TEMPDB on a local disk in a SQL failover cluster

What happens with tempdb on a local disk in a cluster? Read on to see that you will not get a failover if the local disk fails

Steps for Installing AlwaysOn Availability Groups - SQL 2019

With SQL Server 2012 Microsoft introduced the AlwaysOn Availability Group feature, and since then many changes and improvements have been made.  This article is an update to another article, and will cover the prerequisites and steps for installing AlwaysOn in your SQL Server 2019 environment. Prerequisites Before implementing your AlwaysOn Availability Group (AG), make sure […]

Non AG Aware

Make SQL Server Agent Jobs HADR Aware

Introduction Always On Availability Groups (AGs/AG...

Enabling Container Availability Groups

Availability Groups with Docker Containers

Build a SQL Server AlwaysOn environment with docker

Adding a Database with Polybase External Tables to Always On Availability Group

Learn how to ensure your PolyBase objects are accessible from all nodes in an Availability Group.