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SQL basic availability groups

A basic availability group supports a failover environment containing a single database. SQL basic availability groups are configured the same way as SQL Always-On High Availability groups, with the following differences:

  • Limit of two replicas (primary and secondary).
  • No read access on secondary replica.
  • No backups on secondary replica.
  • No integrity checks on secondary replicas.
  • Support for one availability database.
  • Basic availability groups cannot be upgraded to advanced availability groups. The group must be dropped and readded to a group that contains servers running only SQL Server 2016 Enterprise Edition.
  • Basic availability groups are only supported for Standard Edition servers.
  • Basic availability groups cannot be part of a distributed availability group.

Tip:

For multi-subnet environments, see Enable SQL Always On multi-subnet failover.

SQL basic availability groups

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