Hi,
Here is my situation
1. I have a 2 node always on cluster with a fileshare as a witness
2. I install windows patch on the secondary node and reboot it
3. Then I failover my availability group/s to the secondary
4. Install windows patch on the original primary (right now its a secondary due to the previous step)
5. Reboot the original primary and then failback the availability group/s
As I understand, during the failover and failback (steps 3 and 5), users will briefly lose connection to the sql databases.
I can make this bit less painful by not failing back (skip the step 5).
However, I am curious if there is a way to also failover active connections and queries along with the avalaibility groups in step 3?
I am open to any ideas, suggestions, third party tools etc. that can help achieve this goal.
Thank you.
Guru