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Comment on SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn & A Thorough Setup by yogi

yogi — Sat, 18 May 2013 17:23:59 +0000

Terry – May be you no longer need it, but here is a step by step for alwayson AG, someone may find it interesting: http://binyoga.blogspot.in/2013/05/step-by-step-sql-server-2012-alwayson.html

Comment on How to Tell Your Windows Azure SQL Database Moved by Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #65) | McCloud

Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #65) | McCloud — Mon, 13 May 2013 16:06:07 +0000

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Comment on How to Tell Your Windows Azure SQL Database Moved by Grant Fritchey

Grant Fritchey — Mon, 13 May 2013 10:34:10 +0000

Thanks Mike. More good info.

Comment on How to Tell Your Windows Azure SQL Database Moved by Mike Lewis

Mike Lewis — Mon, 13 May 2013 08:14:41 +0000

Hi Grant,
Another indicator of a move, is to monitor the percent full a database is, and the even more granular index fragmentation. If you see a jump up or down in these numbers the chances are you’ve failed over to a secondary. The reason being that a secondary is likely to have different fragmentation levels – secondaries are trashed and rebuilt relatively regularly behind the scenes, which defrags the indexes.

If you couple this info with the suggetions above, you can be pretty sure a failover has occurred.

Comment on How to Tell Your Windows Azure SQL Database Moved by Grant Fritchey

Grant Fritchey — Sun, 12 May 2013 11:17:24 +0000

Thanks Herve. That’s a good idea. Wish I’d thought of it.

Comment on How to Tell Your Windows Azure SQL Database Moved by Herve Roggero

Herve Roggero — Sat, 11 May 2013 18:51:11 +0000

Hi Grant – Good article. To find out if my database has moved since the last time I checked I fetch the database ID of my database: SELECT db_id(). When you fail over, chances are your database ID will be different because you are on a different server. It’s not a perfect solution because there is a chance that you end up on the same Database ID, but considering there are typically hundreds of databases this approach works most of the time.

Comment on How to Tell Your Windows Azure SQL Database Moved by Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #65) - Windows Azure Blog

Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #65) - Windows Azure Blog — Fri, 10 May 2013 22:00:46 +0000

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Comment on How to Tell Your Windows Azure SQL Database Moved by Grant Fritchey

Grant Fritchey — Tue, 07 May 2013 18:59:01 +0000

Excellent feedback. Thanks Feodor.

Comment on How to Tell Your Windows Azure SQL Database Moved by Feodor Georgiev

Feodor Georgiev — Tue, 07 May 2013 18:32:15 +0000

Grant,
a while back I wrote a blog post called “Fiddling with Azure”, which was a result of a total boredom during the winter months in the North.
In that post I was trying to figure out some internals of Azure by poking around.
It actually shows a way to find out the names of the servers on which the database is hosted.
I do, however agree completely with you that it does not matter too much where the database is, as long as it is accessible.
Here is the post: http://sqlconcept.com/2012/11/23/fiddling-with-sql-azure/

Feodor

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