Episode 63
| September 21, 2016
| 36 minutes
Availability Groups
Have you heard about the new High Availability features in SQL Server 2016? Availability groups provide both high availability features and disaster recovery options, but they also have several areas you must be aware so you don’t introduce more risk into your environment. The major advantage is availability groups allow for you to fail over more than one database at a time. In Episode 59 we talked about general data availability options and in this episode we focus on the new features of Availability Groups in 2016 and how data availability options have changed with our guest John Sterrett. John shares his experience getting a large database to a highly available situation along with some other ways to use availability groups.
If you are using availability groups, we’d love to hear about your experience along with any issues you’ve had in the comment below.
SQL Data Partners: Episode 59
SQL Data Partners: Episode 61
Multi Subnet WFCS Setting
Direct Seeding Benchmark
60 TB database made available with no downtime
Readable Secondary Replicas
Today’s Tuning Review: Rebooting SQL Server
PASS High Availability and Disaster Recovery Virtual Chapter
John’s Posts on SQL Server Central
MSDN: Data Replication and Synchronization Guidance
This Week’s Tuning Review Topic
Episode 63’s Tuning Review is about Rebooting SQL Server. Listen and learn over at http://stevestedman.com/reboot.
Listen to Learn…
- How High Availability has changed since SQL Server 2012
- The new 2016 features and how to use them in your environment
- The new “round robin” fail over option that gives you more control over recovery
- Why your Network Admin might be who keeps you from implementing HA
- The single biggest impediment to HA, according to John
- His best piece of career advice and how PASS helps you with this
Our Guest
John Sterrett
John’s experience leading large technical teams in complex environments has made him a global expert in performance and scalability. John speaks at conferences around the world on database strategy and topics related to performance tuning, development, and cloud computing. He is a Microsoft Certified Trainer, is the principal consultant and founder at Procure SQL.
So basically, availability groups are sort of taking the best features of both failover clusters and database mirroring and putting the best features go together to get what we know today as availability groups.
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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