https://am2.co/tag/msx/Recent content in MSX on Andy M Mallon - AM²Hugoen-USTue, 07 Jul 2015 00:22:00 -0400https://am2.co/2015/07/07/using-sql-agent-msx-for-availability-groups/Tue, 07 Jul 2015 00:22:00 -0400https://am2.co/2015/07/07/using-sql-agent-msx-for-availability-groups/<img src="https://am2.co/wp-content/uploads/13195035-887b-4719-bd2d-63e7ac4d8f88-large11.jpg" alt="" width="450" height="316" class="alignright size-full wp-image-564" /> Availability Groups (AGs) are all the rage these days. Every SQL Saturday, every local Users Group, bloggers and DBAs everywhere are all talking about how cool they are. There's a lot of talk about how AGs provide a compelling alternative to Failover Cluster Instances (FCIs). The cost (nothing is free, of course) is that with AGs, you have non-contained objects that you need to manually keep in sync between nodes. <p>A lot has been said and blogged about syncing non-contained objects. <a href="https://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/jonathan/synchronize-availability-group-logins-and-jobs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Here</a>. <a href="http://sqlmag.com/blog/alwayson-availability-groups-and-sql-server-jobs-part-4-synchronizing-server-level-details" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Here</a>. <a href="http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2014/11/change-alwayson-availability-groups/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Here</a>. <a href="https://sql2012alwaysonlogin.codeplex.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Here</a>. And plenty of other places.</p>