This spring at SQL Connections, I presented a pre-conference seminar with Kimberly on the new features in SQL Server 2012, including Availability Groups. While on my flight to Las Vegas, I was working on an application in C# that motivated me to write a new demonstrator application for use with Availability Groups. I spent a [...]
Jonathan Kehayias
The Rambling DBA
Announcing the SQLskills Availability Group Demonstrator
Posted on: September 27, 2012 7:55 am
The Availability Group Wizard and the HADR Seeding Test Database
Posted on: August 23, 2012 10:01 pm
If you are creating an Availability Group in SQL Server 2012 using the New Availability Group Wizard in SQL Server Management Studio, you might not realize some of the background tasks that the wizard performs when it performs its validation steps. One of those steps is to create a temporary database on the current server [...]
New AlwaysOn_health Extended Events Session in SQL Server 2012 RC0
Posted on: November 22, 2011 12:14 am
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 [...]
