Hi SQL Gurus,
Our application utilises one-way transactional replication to move master data between databases. There is also a need for HA for this application. Currently on-premise we use SQL failover clusters to achieve this. We are now looking at Azure for hosting our application (as SQL2014 installed on IaaS) and have run into a hurdle.
For SQL HA in Azure, the option is to use AlwaysOn which we're perfectly comfortable with (unless we opt for a simulated FCI such as documented in http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn673536.aspx). According to BOL, AlwaysOn fully supports Subscribers and Publishers.. however not Distributor (see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh403414.aspx).
So my question is - what options do we have for high availability for replication in Azure (the distributor in particular)?
Feel free to move this question to the Azure forums if need be.
Kind Regards,
Chris