High Availability

Expanding AlwaysOn Availability Groups with Replication Publishers

January 30th, 2013

SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Groups provide a high-availability and disaster-recovery solution for you SQL Server 2012 environments. Replication has been around in SQL Server for quite some time and allows you to scale out your environment. Warwick Rudd explains how to join these technologies together.

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SQL Server 2012 : Availability Groups Creation Error

July 19th, 2012

SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Groups can be pretty easy to create and configure but unless you have designed your environment you may hit the following error when trying to create the Availability Group with the Wizard. To find out more read on ……

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SQL Server 2012 Database Mirroring

July 13th, 2012

Database Mirroring was first introduced in SQL Server 2005. This technology is still available as a viable option to meet your High Availability or Disaster Recovery requirements.

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Encrypting your SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability database

July 6th, 2012

It is likely that you'll want to add a database with TDS Encryption to your AlwaysOn Availability Group. If you do so you'll find that you can't use the SSMS wizard to do so. So, how do you achieve it? Read on…

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SQL Server 2012 : AlwaysOn demonstration

May 18th, 2012

SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn provides you the ability to control your SQL Server environment with more control to meet your High Availability and Disaster Recovery requirements. These 2 videos take you through setting up your environment as well as monitoring your environment.

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Pass SQLSaturday #137

April 11th, 2012

The schedule for SQLSaturday #137 in Canberra has been released. To help you arrange your day to see the sessions you are most interested in.

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SQL Server 2012 : Prerequisites

March 31st, 2012

SQL Server 2012 is due to be released on April 1 2012. One of the big components of the new version is SQL Server AlwaysOn. This technology provides a new granular approach to meeting your High Availability and Disaster Recovery Requirements in this ever increasingly complex world of data. This is the third of a 3 part blog series that I take you through SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn.

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SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn : Availability Groups

March 31st, 2012

SQL Server 2012 is due to be released on April 1 2012. One of the big components of the new version is SQL Server AlwaysOn. This technology provides a new granular approach to meeting your High Availability and Disaster Recovery requirements in this ever increasingly complex world of data. This is the second of a 3 part blog series that I take you through SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn.

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SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn

March 31st, 2012

SQL Server 2012 is due to be released on April 1 2012. One of the big components of the new version is SQL Server AlwaysOn. This technology provides a new granular approach to meeting your High Availability and Disaster Recovery Requirements in this ever increasingly complex world of data. This is the first of a 3 part blog series that I take you through SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn.

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Microsoft Tech-ED Australia 2011 – Sessions and Speakers

August 9th, 2011

The sessions and speakers have been finalised for Tech-ED Australia on the Gold Coast, Queensland Australia between Monday 29th August..

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Windows Server 2008 Cluster Disks Issues

March 3rd, 2011

When building a Windows Server 2008 Stretch cluster you may experience some issues when adding some clustered disk. In this blog I discuss how to get around this issue and how to use cluster.exe to achieve the desired outcome with a working Cluster.

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Hi, I'm Warwick Rudd, I am a Microsoft Data Platform MVP as well as a Microsoft Certified Master working as the Principal Consultant here at SQL Masters Consulting.
In my blog I will look at all things SQL Server as well as some things outside of the SQL Server relm but hopefully you will find them helpful and interesting.

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