Availability Groups and Session Timeouts across WAN?What is a session timeout? This is a property that dictates how many seconds an availability replica waits for a (ping) response from...
How do I encrypt Social Security Numbers in SQL Server?So, your manager wants you to figure out how to encrypt sensitive Data? Well Microsoft has introduced a fairly easy way to configure...
AlwaysOn Series: Monitoring with SQL Agent AlertsThere are several ways to monitor your Availability Groups using native SQL tools. In this particular article I'm going to cover a few...
Build an AlwaysON Availability Group Part 1: Build the Windows Failover ClusterBuild the cluster right so you don't run around frantically like this guy does for a living. So most DBA's know that AlwaysOn...
Cloud Series: High Availability in Azure SQLAzure provides built in high availability. In a given server region, you are provided with three local copies of the Azure SQL Database....