A step-by-step guide to deploying, configuring, and testing a multi-AZ, multi-region SQL Server FCI in the Azure cloud, ...

“Always On Availability Groups is SQL Server’s flagship solution for HADR [high availability and disaster recovery],” explained Mihaela Blendea, senior program manager of SQL Server at ...

Always On Availability Groups is a feature that was introduced in SQL Server 2012 Enterprise Edition as a replacement for database mirroring (covered below) and is also included in SQL Server 2017 for ...

There are two fundamental ways to do this. You could configure a multi-node Always On Availability Group (AG), a feature of SQL Server itself, or you could use Windows Server Failover Clustering ...

SQL Server offers two of its own HA/DR features: Always On Failover Cluster Instances and Always On Availability Groups. FCIs afford three notable advantages: inclusion in the less expensive Standard ...

One of the more challenging configurations with SQL Server is Always On Availability Groups (AGs). Microsoft introduced the feature in SQL Server 2012. The SQL team significantly increased the ...

Always On Availability Groups Microsoft introduced Always On Availability Groups in SQL Server 2012, and has been making improvements to the feature in each release since. One of the biggest ...