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Ahmad Osama
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Ahmad Osama

Ahmad Osama works for Pitney Bowes Pvt. Ltd. as a technical architect and is a former Microsoft Data Platform MVP. In his day job, he works on developing and maintaining high performant, on-premises and cloud SQL Server OLTP environments as well as deployment and automating tasks using PowerShell. When not working, Ahmad blogs at DataPlatformLabs and can be found glued to his Xbox.
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High Availability


High availability refers to providing business continuity when the physical server hosting the Azure SQL Database fails.

As discussed in Chapter 1, Microsoft Azure SQL Database Primer, an Azure SQL Database is hosted on three servers – one primary and two secondary servers:

Figure 8.1: Azure SQL Database is Hosted on Three Servers

The toyfactory database consists of three servers; one primary and at least two secondary servers. The Azure SQL Server is just a logical server name used for connection. When an application sends a connection request, the gateway finds out the current primary server and routes the request to the primary server.

The primary and secondary servers are within the same datacentre and together form a quorum-set.

All read and writes are made to the primary server. Azure SQL Database uses a quorum-based commit method that makes sure that the data is hardened at the primary server and replicated to at least one secondary server before the transaction...

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Ahmad Osama

Ahmad Osama works for Pitney Bowes Pvt. Ltd. as a technical architect and is a former Microsoft Data Platform MVP. In his day job, he works on developing and maintaining high performant, on-premises and cloud SQL Server OLTP environments as well as deployment and automating tasks using PowerShell. When not working, Ahmad blogs at DataPlatformLabs and can be found glued to his Xbox.
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