Tag Archives: high availability

T-SQL Tuesday #60 – Something New Learned

Posted on November 11, 2014 by way0utwest

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 way0utwest

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 way0utwest

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 way0utwest

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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