SQL Server Performance Tuning Practical Workshop – Forward Looking

In the month of January, I had offered a unique offering for training – “SQL Server Performance Tuning Practical Workshop”. I was initially planning to offer this for one month, however the response for this training was so much that I had to extend it for the entire first quarter. At this point of time, I am still delivering 2-3 classes every week as the training is extremely popular.

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SQL SERVER – sp_server_diagnostics – The User Does Not Have Permission to Perform this Action. (297)

In SQL Server 2012 onwards, the cluster health check detection logic has been enhanced. Instead of the traditional pull mechanism of the cluster (IsAlive and LooksAlive), SQL Server (version 2012 onwards) uses a push mechanism to detect the health of the SQL instance. This is done by special stored procedure called sp_server_diagnostics. We should remember that the failover mechanism for the AlwaysOn FCI and the AlwaysOn Availability Groups is same.

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