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SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Groups In Action

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I think of SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Groups as both high availability and scale-out database. This is because you can identify multiple secondary servers in your Availability Group that can be marked for read-only. When you connect to the Availability Group Listener, SQL Server will redirect the request of any connection marked as READONLY to the secondary read-only database server automatically for you. Additionally, you can run common administrative functions that take up cycles and locks on your production database server such as backups and DBCC checks to a readable secondary, again making for a higher-performance scaled-out SQL Server infrastructure.

I just posted a short 10-minute video on our Microsoft East Region DW BI database group here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF9_Kn2Iqy8 which shows my AlwaysOn configuration from the perspective of an end-user writing and viewing reports. This highlights the high-availability capabilities that AlwaysOn AG’s provide, above and beyond the now-deprecated Database Mirroring feature.

One last thing that I want to re-emphasize which I call-out in the video a few times, is how easy it was set-up AlwaysOn and then Availability Groups. I didn’t have to configure shared storage for the cluster configuration, which makes it very easy to demonstrate on a VM, because I don’t need a SAN. There is no shared storage involved with AlwaysOn and the entire demo in the video is performed on Hyper-V.



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