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SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Groups – Part 3: Setting up AlwaysOn through T-SQL

08/04/2014 / By / .NET German, AlwaysOn, SQLServer, SQLServerPedia

In the last blog posting about AlwaysOn you have seen how you can deploy your first Availability Group through the AlwaysOn wizard provided by SQL Server Management Studio 2012. As usual this approach is very handy during development or testing, but as soon as you want to move your Availability Group into production, you need …

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Moving from Windows to Mac – a true love story

08/04/2014 / By / .NET German, Apple, SQLServerPedia / 3 Comments

Since yesterday it is official: I own my first Mac computer – the new MacBook Air that was released a few weeks ago by Apple. I’m already owning the Lenovo W510 notebook for my “serious” SQL Server work (and a few other servers in my rack in the basement of our house), but I wanted …

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SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Groups – Part 2

08/17/2015 / By / .NET German, AlwaysOn, SQLServer, SQLServerPedia

It’s already a long time since I have blogged how to configure your Windows- and SQL Servers for SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn. In the last 3 months I was almost every week on the road (or better in the air) visiting a lot of different clients across Europe, and helped them with their SQL Server …

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Service Broker Adventures: Stucked Queue Monitors

08/04/2014 / By / .NET German, SQLMCM, SQLServer, SQLServerPedia

This week I’m in London helping a client with its large scale Service Broker deployment, mainly troubleshooting some strange problems with Service Broker and helping to improve the overall scalability and messaging throughput. Today I want to share a strange scenario with you, how a badly written Activated Stored Procedure isn’t really activated by Service …

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Killing me softly with Service Broker…

08/04/2014 / By / .NET German, SQLServer, SQLServerPedia / 2 Comments

A few days ago, I found a very interesting behavior regarding Service Broker on a customer system. The main thing is that your activation stored procedure is not allowed to block for a very long time, otherwise you will impact the health of your whole SQL Server instance. In this blog posting I want to …

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