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Considerations Before Failing Over an AG

David Fowler points out a few things to look at before failing over an Availability Group:

What about your SQL Agent jobs? Have you got jobs that perform actions on your data? If you have, do those jobs exist on the new primary? If they don’t then I’m happy to bet that whatever function that they were playing probably isn’t happening anymore.

One thing that I always want to make sure before I failover is, do I have all the relevant jobs ready to roll on the secondary server?

But what about the jobs that you’ve got on the old primary? There’s a fair chance that, if they’re doing any sort of data manipulation, they’re going to be failing.

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