As you know SQL Server 2014 was released this month so the question is why would you consider upgrading to SQL Server 2014? If you have a budget to implement the Enterprise Edition then you probably have more of a case to upgrade now, though items 3, 9 and 10 below may provide enough performance benefit to also consider
Flowing on from my previous article Migrating Database Mirroring to an Availability Group I thought it might be worth posting the high level steps that worked for me in converting a SQL Server 2008 R2/Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise Database Mirroring implementation into a two node Availability Group environment with the second
This is Jason’s take on the monthly tasks for a SQL Server DBA (10 Monthly Maintenance Tasks for SQL Server). My recommendation is that these tasks should be automated where possible.