SQL Server Availability Groups Tips

Get up to speed on SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability with these valuable tips, tutorials, how-to's, scripts, and more perfect for SQL Server DBAs.

SubCategory	Tip Title	Author
Administration	How to Join a Secondary SQL Server Database to an AlwaysON Availability Group	Manvendra Singh
Administration	Remove SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Group Configuration	Manvendra Singh
Administration	Remove SQL Server AlwaysOn Database from Primary Replica	Manvendra Singh
Administration	Removing a Secondary Replica from a SQL Server AlwaysON Availability Group	Manvendra Singh
Automation	Automate refresh of a SQL Server database that is part of an Availability Group	Atul Gaikwad
Backups	Backing Up SQL Server Databases Participating In AlwaysOn Availability Groups	Chad Churchwell
Backups	SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Group Backup Preference Setting	Simon Liew
Compatibility	SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Group Endpoint Encryption Algorithm Compatibility Error	Ahmad Yaseen
Configuration	Add a SQL Server Database to an Existing Always On Availability Group	Manvendra Singh
Configuration	Add secondary replica to existing SQL Server AlwaysON Availability Group	Manvendra Singh
Configuration	Adding a Database to an existing SQL Server Always ON Configuration	Manvendra Singh
Configuration	Configure Distributed Availability Groups for SQL Server Disaster Recovery with Failover Clustering	Edwin Sarmiento
Configuration	Configure SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Groups Read-Only Routing using PowerShell	Edwin Sarmiento
Configuration	Configure SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Groups Read-Only Routing using T-SQL	Edwin Sarmiento
Configuration	Configure SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Group on a Multi-Subnet Cluster	Manvendra Singh
Configuration	Configuring a Dedicated Network for SQL Server Always On Availability Groups Data Replication Traffic	Edwin Sarmiento
Configuration	Enable SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Groups Using Windows PowerShell	Edwin Sarmiento
Configuration	How to Configure Always ON Availability Groups between Two SQL Server Failover Cluster Instances - Part 1	Manvendra Singh
Configuration	Implement a SQL Server 2016 Availability Group without Active Directory Part 1	Edwin Sarmiento
Configuration	Implement a SQL Server 2016 Availability Group without Active Directory Part 2	Edwin Sarmiento
Configuration	Install and Configure SQL Server 2017 Availability Groups on Linux - Part 1	Edwin Sarmiento
Configuration	Install and Configure SQL Server 2017 Availability Groups on Linux - Part 2	Edwin Sarmiento
Configuration	Install and Configure SQL Server 2017 Availability Groups on Linux - Part 3	Edwin Sarmiento
Configuration	Install and Configure SQL Server 2017 Availability Groups on Linux - Part 4	Edwin Sarmiento
Configuration	Install and Configure SQL Server 2017 Availability Groups on Linux - Part 5	Edwin Sarmiento
Configuration	Making the most out of your secondary replica for SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups	Carla Abanes
Configuration	Multi-Site Multi-Cluster SQL Server Installation with Clustering and Availability Groups	Manvendra Singh
Configuration	Setup and Implement SQL Server 2016 Always On Basic Availability Groups	Edwin Sarmiento
Configuration	Setup and Implement SQL Server 2016 Always On Distributed Availability Groups	Edwin Sarmiento
Configuration	SQL Server 2016 Availability Group Automatic Seeding	Simon Liew
Configuration	SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups - Part 1 configuration	Brady Upton
Configuration	SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups - Part 2 Availability Groups Setup	Brady Upton
Configuration	SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups Using an Azure Template	Mohammed Moinudheen
Configuration	SQL Server Availability Group Maintenance with Distributed Availability Groups	Edwin Sarmiento
Configuration	SQL Server Distributed Availability Groups with On-Premises and Azure Instances	Ayman Elnory
Connectivity	How to resolve connectivity issues with SQL Server Availability Groups	Carla Abanes
Contained	Configure Contained Availability Groups for High Availability in SQL Server 2022	Edwin Sarmiento
Disaster Recovery	Step-by-step Configuration of SQL Server Read-Scale Always On Availability Group on Windows for Disaster Recovery	Edwin Sarmiento
Distributed	Build Distributed Availability Groups to migrate SQL Server databases to a different AD Domain - Part 2	Edwin Sarmiento
Distributed	Configure Distributed Availability Groups Between Failover Clusters on Different Active Directory Domains - Part 3	Edwin Sarmiento
Distributed	Configuring Distributed Availability Groups Between Failover Clusters on Different Active Directory Domains – Part 1	Edwin Sarmiento
Encryption	Setting up SQL Server Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) in a High Availability (HA) environment	Jan Potgieter
Error	Connect to SQL Server Availability Group replica with SSMS when Readable Secondary is Read-intent only	Vitor Montalvao
Error	Fixing Error 19405 When Configuring SQL Server Availability Groups	Manvendra Singh
Error	SQL Server misaligned log IOs which required falling back to synchronous IO	Atul Gaikwad
Failover	Manual Failover of SQL Server Always On Distributed Availability Group for Disaster Recovery Testing	Edwin Sarmiento
Failover	Manual SQL Server Availability Group Failover	Carla Abanes
Failover	SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups Fail the Initial Failover Test	Carla Abanes
Installation	Adding SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups to existing Failover Clusters	Bhaskar Sarma
Logins	Drop Login issues for logins tied to SQL Server Availability Groups	Svetlana Golovko
Logins	Orphaned User Detection for SQL Server High Availability Databases	Graham Okely
Maintenance	Remove Database from SQL Server AlwaysON Availability Group Secondary Replica	Manvendra Singh
Monitoring	Creating a SQL Server Availability Group Dashboard for All Servers	Tracy Boggiano
Monitoring	Finding Primary Replicas for SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Groups with PowerShell	Brian P ODwyer
Monitoring	Monitor SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups	Ben Snaidero
Monitoring	Monitoring SQL Server Availability Group Direct Seeding	Mark Wilkinson
Monitoring	Monitoring SQL Server Availability Groups with AlwaysOn Extended Events Health Session	Tracy Boggiano
Monitoring	Powershell Commands for SQL Server Always On Availability Groups	Alejandro Cobar
Monitoring	SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups Inventory and Monitoring Scripts - Part 1	Alejandro Cobar
Monitoring	SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups Monitoring and Alerting - Part 2	Alejandro Cobar
Monitoring	SQL Server Monitoring for all Availability Groups	Alejandro Cobar
Monitoring	Using Extended Events to Monitor SQL Server Availability Groups	Carla Abanes
Network	Configure a Dedicated Network Adapter for SQL Server Always On Distributed Availability Groups Data Replication Traffic	Edwin Sarmiento
Notifications	Configure SQL Server Alerts and Notifications for AlwaysOn Availability Groups	Carla Abanes
Notifications	Configuring Alerts for SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups	Derek Colley
Overview	What is SQL Server AlwaysOn?	Simon Liew
Performance	Queue table issues with Availability Groups in SQL Server	Aaron Bertrand
PowerShell	Create and Configure SQL Server 2016 Always On Availability Groups using Windows PowerShell	Edwin Sarmiento
Reporting	Configure a Read-Scale Always On Availability Group on Windows for Offloading Reporting and Analytical Workloads	Edwin Sarmiento
T-SQL	Create an Always On Availability Groups using TSQL	Alejandro Cobar
Transparent Data Encryption	Configuring Transparent Data Encryption with SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Groups	Edwin Sarmiento
Troubleshooting	Fix SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Group Error: 1408 Joining database on secondary replica resulted in an error	Manvendra Singh
Troubleshooting	Fix SQL Server AlwaysOn Error: 35250 Failed to Join the Availability Group	Manvendra Singh
Troubleshooting	How To Fix SQL Server Always On Availability Group Database Not Synchronized	Vincent Jiang
Troubleshooting	Recover WSFC using Forced Quorum for SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Group	Simon Liew
Troubleshooting	SQL Server Availability Group Error 35246 missing sqlconf.dll	Alejandro Cobar
Troubleshooting	SSISDB and SQL Server 2016 Availability Group Issue with Automatic Seeding	Alejandro Cobar
Upgrade	Steps to Upgrade SQL Server 2012 Always On Availability Groups to SQL Server 2019	Muhammad Kamran

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Title	Speaker
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SQL Server AlwaysOn: Availability Groups & Clustering in 1 hour	Simon Liew
SQL Server Availability Group Monitoring	Edwin Sarmiento and Grant Fritchey
SQL Server high availability with AlwaysOn - First Look	Edwin Sarmiento

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