Always On Failover Cluster Instances (FCIs) is a feature that has been standard since SQL Server 7 running on what was then called Microsoft Cluster Server available on Windows NT 4.0. FCIs afford two ...

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I have an application which we intend to deploy to a multinode, active/active SQL cluster. This application has two types of databases - one is an operational store, of which there can be N of ...

This means that from a SQL Server instance point of view, only one node can be active while the other node is passively waiting for a failure at which point it becomes active. No downtime (okay ...