When you connect to Secondary Replica, but it has not been enabled for read workload, you will get the following error under two situations (1) You connect directly to one of the databases under availability group. It is denied because the database...

In the previous blog http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlserverstorageengine/archive/2011/12/22/alwayson-challenges-with-statistics-on-readonly-database-database-snapshot-and-secondary-replica.aspx we described that stale or missing statistics will potentially...

I am sure you all have dealt with situations when the statistics on one or more columns is either missing or not up-to date. When user submits a query for execution, the SQL Server goes through logical (simplifying or restructuring a query) and physical...

In my previous blog http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlserverstorageengine/archive/2011/12/22/alwayson-minimizing-blocking-of-redo-thread-when-running-reporting-workload-on-secondary-replica.aspx , I described how Readable Secondary eliminates potential REDO...

In earlier blog http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlserverstorageengine/archive/2011/12/22/alwayson-impact-on-the-primary-workload-when-you-run-reporting-workload-on-the-secondary-replica.aspx , I discussed the impact on RTO in case the REDO thread gets blocked...

The primary goal of AlwaysOn technology is to provide High Availability for Tier-1 workloads. The ability to leverage secondary replica(s) to offload reporting workloads and database/transaction log backups is useful, but only if it does not compromise...

One question that I often get asked is if there will any data latency if you are using 'Sync' replica for read workload. The short answer is yes. Here is the blog that explains it in detail. While the reporting workload running on the secondary replica...

In the previous blog http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlserverstorageengine/archive/2011/12/22/AlwaysOn-setting-up-readable-seconary-replica.aspx I mentioned that there are two options to configure secondary replica for running read workload. The first option...

The easiest way to create an availability group and adding replicas is to use the availability group wizard. You can invoke the wizard by right-clicking on 'Availability Groups'. The picture of the explorer window below shows that I have created 1 availability...

This series of blogs is targeting AlwaysON Readable Secondary. Please refer to http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlalwayson/archive/tags/availability+group/ for other blogs in the related area Readable Secondary is part of AlwaysOn suite of functionality available...