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Initializing the replica means a full database backup/restore from on-premise up to the Azure VMs, too, so this isnР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›t a great solution for big databases with limited bandwidth.

The wizard lets you pick the VM image, VM size (cores & memory), cloud replica name, admin password, etc. Now, in the AlwaysOn Add Replica wizard, thereР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›s an Р В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р РЋРЎв„ўAdd Azure ReplicaР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р РЋРЎС™ button that integrates with your Azure subscription logins. Use Azure VMs as AlwaysOn AG replicas.Р В РІР‚в„ўР вЂ™Р’В Nobody wants to pay for expensive offsite datacenter space with machines that sit idle all the time.

I like using a separate set of DNS records for readable replicas, like, and have my report servers point at those. This just means that in order to keep your report queries online, you canР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›t use the AG listener Р В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†Р вЂљРЎС™ you have to connect directly to the replicaР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›s server name. In SQL 14, the secondaries remain online and readable when the primaries arenР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›t available.Р В РІР‚в„ўР вЂ™Р’В However, keep in mind that typical AlwaysOn AG connections go through the AG listener name, and then fetch the list of readable replicas from the primary.

(This is hilarious because itР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›s right when you really want to be able to query the secondaries.) No way to control it Р В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†Р вЂљРЎС™ itР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›s totally automatic.

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In SQL 2012, if your primary drops offline or the cluster loses quorum, the readable replica databases drop offline. Of course, youР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›ll be paying for Enterprise Edition licensing on these, but if you were already going to replicate data out to various reporting or BI servers, now your life is easier.Р В РІР‚СњР В РІР‚С›lwaysOn AG readable secondaries will be more reliable. This is the current behavior in SQL Server 2012, and itР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›ll be the default.Р В РІР‚СњР В РІР‚С›lwaysOn Availability Groups get more secondaries.Р В РІР‚в„ўР вЂ™Р’В If you really need to scale out your reads, SQL 14 gives you up to 8 secondaries (up from 4). If NONE, everybody just keeps waiting, doinР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС› the neutron dance. If SELF, your index rebuild will give up and let user queries keep going. If BLOCKERS, then SQL Server will abort (kill) the queries blocking your index rebuild.

ABORT_AFTER_WAIT = BLOCKERS Р В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†Р вЂљРЎС™ can be a few different variables.

MAX_DURATION = 5 Р В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†Р вЂљРЎС™ wait for up to 5 minutes.

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WAIT_AT_LOW_PRIORITY Р В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†Р вЂљРЎС™ just hang out when you need the schema mod lock.

PARTITION = 3 Р В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†Р вЂљРЎС™ you can pick the specific partition you want to rebuild, and you can do it online.

WITH (ONLINE = ON (WAIT_AT_LOW_PRIORITY (MAX_DURATION = 5, ABORT_AFTER_WAIT = BLOCKERS))) ThereР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›s also new Extended Events stuff you can use to monitor whoР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›s getting blocked and killed. For 24/7 workloads, this gives the DBA the ability to do maintenance with lower locking, CPU, and memory overhead. More online maintenance operations.Р В РІР‚в„ўР вЂ™Р’В Got big data in a partitioned table? Is nobody giving you any time to do maintenance? Just no time to stop and get away cause you work so hard to make it every day?Р В РІР‚в„ўР вЂ™Р’В Well, with SQL 14, you can rebuild a single partitionР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›s index online, and you can switch partitions in/out using DBA-specified lock priorities. If the answer to all of those questions is yes, an SSD buffer pool extension may be for you.Р В РІР‚в„ўР вЂ™Р’В Honestly, Microsoft could stop there and IР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›d probably still recommend the new version for most of my clients, because thatР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›s a killer performance benefit.

Does your server have room for locally attached PCI Express or SAS/SATA solid state drives?.

Do business requirements force you to use shared storage or magnetic local storage? If not, consider moving the data to local SSD entirely.

Have you already maxed out the memory on the server? If not, start there first Р В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†Р вЂљРЎС™ memory can be used for more than just caching clean pages.

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Is your total actively queried data set bigger than you can fit in memory? Note that I didnР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›t say all data: you might have archive or history or audit tables in your databases that are never queried, and thereР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›s no sense in caching those.

HereР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›s the questions youР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›ll want to ask before you use this feature: SSDs are cheap, and theyР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›re only getting cheaper and faster. This works with local SSDs in clusters, too Р В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†Р вЂљРЎС™ each node can have its own local SSDs (just like you would with TempDB) and preserve the SAN throughput for the data and log files. (Only clean pages, not dirty pages, are stored there.) The best use case is for read-heavy OLTP workloads. SQL Server 2014 will automatically cache data there with zero risk of data loss. You can specify an SSD (or an SSD array) to be used to extend memory. They havenР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›t announced the licensing/pricing, but IР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›ll tell you what I do know so far.Р В РІР‚СњР В РІР‚РЋirst, open this in another tab and hit playР В РІР‚в„ўР вЂ™Р’В so youР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›ve got some background music while you read.Р В РІР‚в„ўР вЂ™Р’В Done with the commercial? Okay, letР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›s get to it:Р В РІР‚СњР вЂ™Р’В¬ache frequently used data on SSDs. Just when you thought SQL Server couldnР В Р вЂ Р В РІР‚С™Р Р†РІР‚С›РЎС›t get better, Microsoft is announcing the features for SQL Server 2014.