For availability groups - you don't want to manage them using Failover Cluster Manager - you want to manage them using T-SQL commands.

I suspect we have a mismatch on what...

So if you go in Failover Cluster Manager and expand "Services and Applications" and click on the Availability Group name - what do you see under "Current Owner" vs. "Preferred...

Hi Sarah,

A recap and some clarifying questions I have for you:

- You have a three node Windows Server Failover Cluster

- You have three SQL Server instances - one per node?...

Thanks Ron.

My thought behind this first article was to see how well it could do with the "blue sky" scenario. The next round of testing should include data modification...

Thanks Phil!

Agreed. And I anticipate seeing this feature applied inappropriately (when it comes to SQL Server). I'll be keeping an eye on this area.

There are promising...

Hi Grant,

My test used an identical TDE database backup file each time - so I think another interesting test would include backups with X percent of changes to the data....