Tag Archives: Availability Group

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The R.A.P. Way To Monitor SQL Server Always On Availability Groups

When I started working with SQL Server Always On Availability Groups several years ago, one of the most common questions I got was how to monitor the entire infrastructure. When it was a simple standalone SQL Server instance, monitoring was easy – you monitor if the SQL Server service was up or down, if the […]

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Using the Cluster Preparation Checklist for Deploying SQL Server Failover Clustered Instances and Always On Availability Groups

Failing to plan is planning to fail Designing and deploying high availability solutions takes a lot of preparation and planning. Whenever I do presentations that involve demos of creating SQL Server failover clustered instances (FCIs) and Availability Groups (AGs,) I emphasize that while the demo only takes less than 20 minutes to complete, it takes […]