Now that we’ve outlined the process to let servers in a SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Group "talk to each other" by means of setting up linked servers, it’s possible to set up some additional or improved checks on...
In my previous post, I provided a high-level outline of the core logic (and rationale behind that logic) that would be needed to set up regular synchronization checks on SQL Server Agent Jobs for servers where AlwaysOn Availability Groups have...
With Linked Servers configured to allow cross-host or cross-box communication between the servers you’re using to host your AlwaysOn Availability Groups, it’s time to start looking at some scripts that can be used to regularly check...
WARNING: While Linked Servers are an integral part of letting SQL (and other) Servers communicate with each other, casual use of them or incorrectly setting them up can lead to MAJOR security vulnerabilities.
In this post, we’ll look at sett...
When compared to AlwaysOn Failover Cluster Instances (FCIs) or clustered deployments of SQL Server, one of the main problems...
In this post, we’ll take a more detailed look at some simple mechanisms that can be used to track the state of SQL Server...
In my previous post, we re-evaluated whether Batch Jobs (see Post #3 – Defining Batch Jobs, for more on that term) should si...
