SQL SERVER – Read Only Routing Error: Client Unable to Establish Connection Because an Error was Encountered During Handshakes Before Login

I have helped many clients in deploying Always On Availability Group. Based on their requirement they keep using additional features provided by availability groups. This time they wanted to use always-on availability group read-only routing feature. Their goal was to offload read-only workload to the secondary replica. This was failing with error: Client unable to establish a connection because an error was encountered during handshakes before login.

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SQL SERVER – Stretch Database – Free Trial Subscriptions Can Provision Basic, Standard S0 through S3 Databases, up to 100 eDTU Basic or Standard Elastic Pools and DW100 Through DW400 Data Warehouses

I wrote a blog earlier about my first experience (and error encountered) with “Stretch Database” feature. In this blog I would talk about the error – Free Trial subscriptions can provision Basic, Standard S0 through S3 databases, up to 100 eDTU Basic or Standard elastic pools and DW100 through DW400 data warehouses.

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How to Track Data Platform Service Level and Performance Before and After Consolidation?

When you are planning data platform consolidation, it is very important to track down the changes in the overall system performance after the actual migration is done. You should understand the differences in the configurations and performance of the instances and databases. Then you will also understand better how well the actual planning work went, and which are the possible challenges in the data platform.

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