Video: How To Simplify Installation and Configuration of a 2-node Multi-Subnet/Geographically Dispersed SQL Server (2012 and higher) Failover Clustered Instance

In a previous blog post, I’ve demonstrated how to install and configure a 2-node SQL Server 2012 failover clustered instance (FCI.) As a follow-up, below is a video on how to install and configure a multi-subnet/geographically dispersed SQL Server 2012 (and higher) FCI. When SQL Server 2012 introduced the support for multi-subnet clustering, there have been […]

AlwaysOn Readable Secondaries: That Extra 14-bytes In Your Record You Didn’t Know About

– “Progress comes at a price.” Edwin Sarmiento- I’ve responded to customers’ inquiries about the benefits of implementing SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Groups since Microsoft released a public CTP of “Denali.” I’ve delivered presentations, written articles, prepared proof-of-concept designs and even recorded a video on this topic. While it may be a new feature […]

Deploying a SQL Server 2012 Multi-Subnet Cluster

I’ve been wanting to write a series of articles on deploying a SQL Server 2012 on a multi-subnet cluster for quite some time now. This was driven by the fact that my series of articles on SQL Server 2008 Failover Clustering had been in the Top 10 Tips for more than 2 years since being […]

SQL Server 2012 High Availability Webcast Resources Now Available

There have been requests from attendees of last week’s webcast to make the resources available for download. If you’ve attended or viewed (thru MSSQLTips.com’s recording) my webcast on SQL Server 2012 High Availability with AlwaysOn, you can download the resources – Windows-based client application together with the Visual Studio 2010 project files, batch files to […]