Tag Archives: high availability

What’s Downtime?

Posted on April 9, 2018 by

There was a time when I worked for a company that sold products on-line  Since our wares could be purchased at any time of the day or night, we wanted to ensure that our systems were running all the time. This … Continue reading →

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The Reliable DBA

Posted on March 13, 2018 by

Many of us would consider ourselves to be reliable at work. Our employers count on us, co-workers may assume we’re handling certain tasks, and it’s human nature to think that we are meeting our obligations and responsibilities. Maybe not 100% … Continue reading →

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Database Mirroring Needs FQDNs

Posted on July 3, 2017 by

A quick basic post, and one that I’ve forgotten. Since blogging is a good way to remind myself of things, here goes. I was testing Database Mirroring (DBM) recently for an upgrade situation. I’ve set up it up in the … Continue reading →

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Failover

Posted on July 29, 2016 by

I saw a note from someone that had a database set up in a High Availability (HA) configuration for production. This person had received an 823 error on the primary server, but a failover hadn’t occurred. This wasn’t a critical … Continue reading →

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Zero Downtime for 2016

Posted on February 15, 2016 by

I’ve never felt that zero downtime is possible for a system over any length of time. There are no shortage of companies that seek to prove me wrong, and some are doing very well. For example, when is the last … Continue reading →

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T-SQL Tuesday #60 – Something New Learned

Posted on November 11, 2014 by

It’s been five years, and that’s amazing. Not many things last for a year, much less five, but the T-SQL Tuesday party, started by Adam Machanic (B|T)., has been amazing and lots of fun for me. This month, Chris Yates … Continue reading →

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Multiple AGs

Posted on November 4, 2014 by

Today was my pre-con with Allan Hirt on AlwaysOn. It was great, and I learned a few things. I knew a bit about AGs, but Allan has a ton of experience, and he talked about some architectural things that I … Continue reading →

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Downtime

Posted on March 3, 2014 by

Most of us that work with technology hate downtime. We don’t want a system that we’re using to go down. We don’t want any software that we depend on to fail when we need it. Most of all, we don’t … Continue reading →

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The Decision to Fail

Posted on June 7, 2013 by

We have a number of automated technologies that we can us to seamlessly move from primary to secondary systems without human intervention. SQL Server incorporates a number of these, and many companies use them to ensure their applications are highly available. However things don’t … Continue reading →

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Understanding HA

Posted on May 22, 2013 by

I’ve learned a lot about high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) over the last two decades. Some of the things I’ve learned were from studying, some from experimentation and practice, and a few from hard lessons when some part of a … Continue reading →

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