Just to clarify about the maintenance. Let me recap. The maintenance is performed on the backup server from the storage team, so backup volumes would be unavailable during the maintenance...

Thanks brian. I like the idea of requesting to move the backup disk off the backup server while the maintenance is performed. Can you give more details on this?

Storage guys found the window where there is no activity on the backup server. Would you agree that would be the best window?

We have multiple servers. So you suggesting to change all backups(You mean...

I understand that App D, it will be used for application monitoring. If you have already database monitoring tool configured. Would App D interfere with already configured monitoring tool for...

Thanks I agree with all you. What if you have lots of servers across the board? It would be hard to find the good maintenance window right? So there would...

Any thoughts on Qlik or Qlik connector for replication from sql to oracle. It doesn't seems to work on prem is that for a cloud? Do you agree?

Sorry I am confused. The aliases is pointed to current prod server.So my understanding is the aliases cannot be pointed to new prod server until the go live. So the...

Thank you! Trying to clarify about normal availability group, does it mean AG without Windows server fail over cluster? Please correct me if I am wrong? Do you see any...

Any thoughts?

Thanks. I agree with you. All servers are enterprise edition.

Server A - Primary

Server B - Secondary (for reporting) - asynchronous

Server C - Secondary (DR) - asynchronous

Databases:

Database A - Basic availabililty...

Thanks! On a side note, I configured AG for reporting from Primary server. So the reporting is the secondary replica which is a different instance. I would like to create...

Also based on my research noticed Idera has bigger encryption stuff too. Any thoughts on this?

There are several encryption features that have been around in SQL Server for a long time. For starters, column-level encryption has been available since SQL Server 2005. This type of...

Any inputs or thoughts?Thanks