What Happens to Pages in the Buffer Pool when your Availablity Group Fails Over?
Recently at SQL Saturday Philadelphia, we started discussing failover as it relates to mirroring and Always On Availability Groups. Specifically, we were wondering what would happen if you had a...
View ArticleA Problem with Storage Spaces, Failover Clustering, and Always On...
This is quite possibly my longest blog post title, ever, however it is pretty important for anyone who is building SQL Server configurations using Azure virtual machines. If you aren’t familiar with...
View ArticleInto the Blue—Building DR in Windows Azure
Tomorrow (at 1300 EDT/1800 GMT), I’ll be presenting to the SQL Pass High Availability and Disaster Recovery VC on one my favorite topics of late—building disaster recovery from your data center into...
View ArticleGetting Started with Azure Hybrid Models—Point to Site Networking
I’ve done several presentations on hybrid disaster recovery (DR) using SQL Server and Windows Azure, and configuring the network has been a headache every time. Some SQL DR methods do not require a...
View ArticleSQL Server on Linux–Clustering
First of word of warning on this post—if you are reading it and it isn’t January of 2017, I suspect things may have changed significantly in the months going forward. So I did It, I built a SQL cluster...
View ArticleSQL Server on Linux Clustering—A Few Other Notes
So I was chatting with fellow MVP Allan Hirt (b|t) about the cluster build that I wrote about yesterday, and I had a few more realizations about the Linux HA process as it stands right now. I haven’t...
View ArticleQuery Store and Availability Groups—Force Plan on Secondary Replicas
I’m still fighting with some challenges about inconsistent performance between a primary and secondary replica, so I’ve been waste deep in undocumented system views looking at temporary statistics. One...
View ArticleMonitoring Availability Groups—New Tools from Solarwinds
As I mentioned in my post a couple of weeks ago, monitoring the plan cache on a readable secondary replica can be a challenge. My customer was seeing dramatically different performance, depending on...
View ArticleStorage Field Day 19 MinIO #SFD19
In January I had the chance to attend Storage Field Day 19 in Santa Clara, where we got to meet with a wide variety of startups and large enterprise storage companies. One of the more interesting...
View ArticleHow Do I Make MySQL Highly Available with Open Source Tools?
This is clickbait post title, sorry. You are here now. The correct answer is that you should purchase MySQL as a database service from your favorite cloud provider (Google, Amazon, and Azure all offer...
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