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SQL Server High Availability & Disaster Recovery technologies and comparison

Comparison of SQL Server HA & DR solutions and comparison

No SQL FCI with S2D Alwasy On AG Description
1 MSDTC is not in pre Azure Win 2019 Available from SQL 2016 SP2 onwards Official link
2 Good for large no of database MSFT only tested upto 100 DBs
3 Fail over 30+secs Fail over 1 secs
4 Required shared storage Each node stores
5 DR to be done separately One async node can be for DR
6 FileStream needs non CSV volumne Works natively
7 No read from secondary Support reading secondary read
8 Full instance fail over Group of databases can fail over
9 No automatic page repair automatic page repair
10 Full feature in Standard edition Enterprise only. Standard has basic

References

https://blog.coeo.com/is-this-the-end-of-sql-server-failover-cluster-instances

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