Episode 76
| December 31, 2016
| 53 minutes
Availability Group Improvements
Availability groups provide some exciting features in mixing high availability and disaster recovery; however, from a performance consideration, there are a few drawbacks. With the advances in SQL Server 2016, our guest Jimmy May, set out to test the features and see if they could get some really high performance out of an availability group with two synchronous replicas. In this episode he talks with us about some of his findings and some of the pains associated with getting there.
Listen to Learn
- What improvements have been made to the log transport process
- Changes to the log redo.
- A new startup parameter -k and what it does
- Why hardware validation is still important
- Jimmy was the guest of what celebrity from the 90’s?
Our Guest
Jimmy May
Jimmy May is a SQL Server technologies for SanDisk, a Western Digital brand. His primary skill set is related to tuning & optimization of SQL Server databases. He formally worked at Microsoft on the SQL CAT (Customer Advisory Team). When he is not working on databases, you can find him on skiing wherever they might be snow.
I’ve been a big fan of flipping the faster bit ever since even before I was a member of SQLCAT.
Meet the Hosts
Carlos Chacon
With more than 10 years of working with SQL Server, Carlos helps businesses ensure their SQL Server environments meet their users’ expectations. He can provide insights on performance, migrations, and disaster recovery. He is also active in the SQL Server community and regularly speaks at user group meetings and conferences. He helps support the free database monitoring tool found at databasehealth.com and provides training through SQL Trail events.
Eugene Meidinger
Eugene works as an independent BI consultant and Pluralsight author, specializing in Power BI and the Azure Data Platform. He has been working with data for over 8 years and speaks regularly at user groups and conferences. He also helps run the GroupBy online conference.
Kevin Feasel
Kevin is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP and proprietor of Catallaxy Services, LLC, where he specializes in T-SQL development, machine learning, and pulling rabbits out of hats on demand. He is the lead contributor to Curated SQL, president of the Triangle Area SQL Server Users Group, and author of the books PolyBase Revealed (Apress, 2020) and Finding Ghosts in Your Data: Anomaly Detection Techniques with Examples in Python (Apress, 2022). A resident of Durham, North Carolina, he can be found cycling the trails along the triangle whenever the weather's nice enough.
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