While setting up my new Availability Group using SQL Server 2012 RC0 tonight, I noticed an interesting new addition to Extended Events associated with Availability Group configuration in the Release Candidate. When you setup an Availability Group in RC0, another default Event Session is created on the servers that participate in the Availability Group to [...]
Jonathan Kehayias
The Rambling DBA
New AlwaysOn_health Extended Events Session in SQL Server 2012 RC0
Posted on: November 22, 2011 12:14 am
Performing a Distributed Replay with Multiple Clients using SQL Server 2012 Distributed Replay
Posted on: November 19, 2011 1:52 am
In the first post in this blog series on using SQL Server 2012 Distributed Replay, Installing and Configuring SQL Server 2012 Distributed Replay, we looked at how to configure a Distributed Replay environment using multiple clients and a dedicated replay controller. In this post we’ll actually make use of the previously configured servers to perform [...]
The AdventureWorks2008R2 Books Online Random Workload Generator
Posted on: November 18, 2011 11:38 pm
Over time, I’ve had a number of reasons to need to run a random workload against SQL Server to be able to demonstrate troubleshooting, how SQLOS works, and most recently how to capture a Replay Trace for my series on the Distributed Replay Utility in SQL Server 2012. For a while I’ve maintained a large [...]
Installing and Configuring SQL Server 2012 Distributed Replay
Posted on: November 9, 2011 2:00 am
This blog post is the first in a series of posts that will cover how to install, configure, and use the new Distributed Replay Utility in SQL Server 2012. The distributed replay utility can be used to assess the impact of changes and upgrades by replaying workload activity against a test environment based on a [...]
