December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
434 pages
10h 14m
English
An Availability group is a collection of the databases you would like to host on the availability replicas. You cannot add any of the system databases to the availability group, so this works only for the user databases. The Availability Group can be created from the SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), where you can also script out the whole configuration T-SQL script for future reference or larger deployments. In the SSMS, navigate to Always On High Availability and start the wizard:

In the Specify Options page of the wizard, you have to enter the Availability group name, which can't be longer than 128 characters ...
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