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SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn – What is it?
This is the first one of several articles we will provide about the new SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn functionality. In this part we will go over the terms, capabilities and differences to SQL Server...
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SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn – Part 2 - Quorum Detection
After giving an overview on AlwaysOn in the first part of the series of articles, we now need to go a bit more in the details around Availability Groups and why we don’t need a witness instance...
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SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn – Part 3 – SAP configuration with two Secondary...
After having learned how AlwaysOn handles quorum detection and how a Standard SAP/SQL Server WSFC configuration can be used w/o large changes to the WSFC configuration increase availability of SQL the...
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SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn – Part 4 – SAP configuration in Geo-Cluster...
In the fourth part of the series, we are looking at a last reference configuration before moving to the actual doing part. In regards to terms and basics it might be very helpful to read the first part...
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SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn – Part 5 – Preparing to build an AlwaysOn...
Since we covered different architecture we can use between AlwaysOn and SAP, we want to look into creating our first Availability group from scratch. We assume that we have a new installation of SAP...
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SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn – Part 6 – Building an AlwaysOn Availability Group
After having the primary and replica instances prepared for AlwaysOn as described in the former part by having copied, restored and synchronized the databases between the replicas and having...
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SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn – Part 7 – Details behind an AlwaysOn Availability...
Version 2.0 - Correcting Failure Condition Level explanations After having created our first Availability Group, we now want to go behind the scenes and into the details of what does happen when...
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SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn – Part 8 – Failover Mechanism with SAP Netweaver
In part 8 of our series we want to look a bit behind the scenes how the SAP reconnect works together with the AlwaysOn. In part #7 we referenced already to failover exercises. We need to distinguish...
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AlwaysOn Part 9: AlwaysOn and Logshipping
In this part we want to talk about some scenarios where AlwaysOn and Log-Shipping is getting combined. The two scenarios we want to look into particularly would be:Despite the fact that we are using...
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AlwaysOn Part 10: Switching Scheduled tasks automatically
As we talked about leveraging Log-Shipping together with AlwaysOn in Part #10, it became apparent that one would need to enable or disable scheduled tasks automatically on the primary and secondary...
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SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn – Part 12 – Performance Aspects and Performance...
Moving to synchronous availability modeOne thing we are not measuring in our tests with asynchronous availability mode is the impact of latency to transport the changes over to the secondary replicas....
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SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn – What is it?
This is the first one of several articles we will provide about the new SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn functionality. In this part we will go over the terms, capabilities and differences to SQL Server...
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SAP on SQL General Update for Customers & Partners April 2014
SAP and Microsoft are continuously adding new features and functionalities to the SAP on SQL Server platform. The key objective of the SAP on Windows SQL port is to deliver the best performance and...
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SQL Agent Jobs in an AlwaysOn / Mirroring Environment
Running SQL Agent Jobs in an AlwaysOn or Database Mirroring environment can be a challenge, as the database might be not accessible at the time when the job starts. This is especially the case for all...
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SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn – Part 11 – Performance Aspects and Performance...
In this part of the series we want to look a bit more into performance aspects in deploying AlwaysOn and the way how one can monitor the requirements and also the impact of AlwaysOn.What are potential...
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SQL Server AlwaysOn - Summary
AlwaysOn is a very large feature in SQL Server and we needed to talk about all of the parts so that you could understand how important different configuration steps are. But now we know you want to...
View ArticleFoodstuffs North Island Retire Legacy Technology and Lower Costs by Moving...
SAP Retail Customer Saves Money by moving legacy Info Assets to Azure Foodstuffs North Island (FSNI) is a $6 Billion Dollar Supermarket and Retail chain in New Zealand with 400 stores distributed...
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World Record SAP Sales and Distribution Standard Application Benchmark for...
In this article we want to talk about four SAP 3-Tier benchmarks that SAP and Microsoft released today. As of October 5th 2015, the best of these benchmarks sets the World Record for the category of...
View ArticleSAP GUI is supporting Windows 10 as operating system
As of 10/08/2015, SAP GUI is supported to run on the Windows 10 operating system. This includes the usage of IE11 in conjunction with SAP GUI as well. The new Edge browser will not be supported since...
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Data distribution and SQL Plans
For customers of SAP (and others) it is very important that the runtime of the different reports or programs is predictable, fast and stable. From time to time it happens that former fast query...
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