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Recommendations for Index Maintenance with AlwaysOn Availability Groups
SYMPTOMSConsider the following scenarioThe database is part of AlwaysOn Availability GroupsYou run long and log-intensive transactions like Index maintenance/rebuildsYou observe one or more of the...
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AlwaysOn Availability Group Returns Failover Partner for Legacy Mirror...
Availability Groups Simulate Database Mirroring Connection BehaviorGiven the following scenario, SQL Server will return the failover partner server name to a connection request:The availability group...
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AlwaysOn Availability Group Listener Cannot be Created or Failed Over on Node...
AlwaysOn availability groups will not function properly on Windows servers where the system's 'Primary DNS Suffix of this Computer' is not set. Usually, the Primary DNS Suffix is populated when a...
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Failing back from DR site after primary site is back online
Assume steps similar to those from Manual Failover of Availability Group were used to move to the DR site.When the Availability Group is brought online on the DR site with alter availability...
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Replication Agents fail to connect to listener in a multisite cluster
A listener (network name) for a multisite cluster will be dependent on more than 1 ip address. When connecting to a listener for a multisite cluster, it is recommended to add the parameter...
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Configure an ILB Listener for Alwayson Availability Group in Azure V2 or...
This topic shows you how to configure a listener for an AlwaysOn Availability Group by using an Internal Load Balancer (ILB) with Azure Virtual machine provisioned using the new Azure Resource...
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Configure an External Listener for Alwayson Availability Groups in Azure V2...
This post was republished to AlwaysOn Professional at 3:54:28 PM 10/20/2015Configure an External Listener for Alwayson Availability Groups in Azure V2 or Virtual Machines created using Azure...
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Reducing Loss of Connectivity when Recreating an Availability Group
When you drop an availability group, the listener resource is also dropped and interrupts application connectivity to the availability databases. To minimize application downtime, use one of the...
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How to enable TDE Encryption on a database in an Availability Group
By default, the Add Database Wizard and New Availability Group Wizard for AlwaysOn Availability Groups do not support databases that are already encrypted: see Encrypted Databases with AlwaysOn...
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Improved MultiSubnet Listener Behavior With Newly Released SQL Client...
SQL Client Provider Behavior With MultiSubnet Listener Results in Connection TimeoutsThe first experience trying to connect to an availability group listener defined with multiple IP addresses, may be...
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Enhance AlwaysOn Failover Policy to Test SQL Server Data and Log Drives
In SQL Server 2012 and 2014, AlwaysOn health diagnostics detect the health of the SQL Server process in several ways. However, no health detection is performed on the accessibility or viability of the...
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Enhance AlwaysOn Failover Policy to Test SQL Server Database Data and Log Drives
In SQL Server 2012 and 2014, AlwaysOn health diagnostics detect the health of the SQL Server process in several ways. However, no health detection is performed on the accessibility or viability of the...
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Troubleshooting Availability Group Listener in Azure
Configuring an availability group listener in Azure is much more complex than doing it on-premises, due to the some limitations of Azure networking. This topic helps you troubleshoot your availability...
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How to add a TDE encrypted database to an Availability Group
By default, the Add Database Wizard and New Availability Group Wizard for AlwaysOn Availability Groups do not support databases that are already encrypted: see Encrypted Databases with AlwaysOn...
View ArticleRecommendations for Index Maintenance with AlwaysOn Availability Groups
SYMPTOMS Consider the following scenario The database is part of AlwaysOn Availability Groups You run long and log-intensive transactions like Index maintenance/rebuilds You observe one or more of...
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AlwaysOn Availability Group Returns Failover Partner for Legacy Mirror...
Availability Groups Simulate Database Mirroring Connection Behavior Given the following scenario, SQL Server will return the failover partner server name to a connection request: The availability group...
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AlwaysOn Availability Group Listener Cannot be Created or Failed Over on Node...
AlwaysOn availability groups will not function properly on Windows servers where the system’s ‘Primary DNS Suffix of this Computer’ is not set. Usually, the Primary DNS Suffix is populated when a...
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Failing back from DR site after primary site is back online
Assume steps similar to those from Manual Failover of Availability Group were used to move to the DR site. When the Availability Group is brought online on the DR site with alter availability...
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Replication Agents fail to connect to listener in a multisite cluster
A listener (network name) for a multisite cluster will be dependent on more than 1 ip address. When connecting to a listener for a multisite cluster, it is recommended to add the parameter...
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Improved MultiSubnet Listener Behavior With Newly Released SQL Client...
SQL Client Provider Behavior With MultiSubnet Listener Results in Connection Timeouts The first experience trying to connect to an availability group listener defined with multiple IP addresses, may be...
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