Pieter Vanhove

My Microsoft SQL Blog

Top 7 Questions about Basic Availability Groups

AlwaysOn Basic Availability Groups provide a “basic” high availability solution for SQL Server 2016...

Author: Pieter Vanhove Date: 03/14/2017

How to Set Up Basic Availability Groups in SQL Server 2016

AlwaysOn Basic Availability Groups provide a high availability solution for SQL Server 2016 Standard...

Author: Pieter Vanhove Date: 05/10/2016

-m Startup Parameter issues

This week I delivered a disaster recovery workshop at one of clients. One of the tasks is to startup...

Author: Pieter Vanhove Date: 03/03/2016

The order of automatic failover

One of the new features that has been added in SQL Server 2016 for High Availability is the...

Author: Pieter Vanhove Date: 02/14/2016

Backup to Azure WITH CREDENTIAL (deprecated) or SAS Token

Since SQL Server 2012 SP1 CU2 or later and SQL Server 2014 it is possible to use the Microsoft Azure...

Author: Pieter Vanhove Date: 02/05/2016

Generate workload on your Azure SQL Database

At the end of last year, we have announced the Azure SQL Database Index Advisor which recommends new...

Author: Pieter Vanhove Date: 01/08/2016