{"id":3862,"date":"2017-05-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/blog\/azure-sql-database-now-supports-transparent-geographic-failover-of-multiple-databases-featuring-automatic-activation"},"modified":"2025-06-19T08:17:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T15:17:43","slug":"azure-sql-database-now-supports-transparent-geographic-failover-of-multiple-databases-featuring-automatic-activation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/azure-sql-database-now-supports-transparent-geographic-failover-of-multiple-databases-featuring-automatic-activation\/","title":{"rendered":"Azure SQL Database now supports transparent geographic failover of database groups"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The built-in geo-replication feature has been generally available to SQL Database customers since 2014. During this time one of the most common customer requests has been about supporting transparent failover with automatic activation.&nbsp;Now generally available, auto-failover groups extends geo-replication with the following additional capabilities:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\">Geo-replication of a group of databases within a logical server<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\">Ability to choose manual or automatic failover for a group of databases<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\">The connection endpoint to the primary databases in the group that doesn\u2019t change after failover<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\">The connection end-point to the secondary databases in the group that doesn\u2019t change after failover (for read-only workloads)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"geo-replication-of-a-group-of-databases\">Geo-replication of a group of databases<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A typical cloud application includes multiple databases. You can now use <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/powershell\/module\/azurerm.sql\/New-AzureRmSqlDatabaseFailoverGroup?view=azurermps-4.0.0\">Azure SQL Database API <\/a>to protect the application by geo-replicating all its databases in one simple step. During an outage, all these databases will failover to the secondary server as a group. The group can include individual databases, elastic pools or a combination of the two. If you are already using geo-replication for your production databases you can create a failover group and<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/powershell\/module\/azurerm.sql\/add-azurermsqldatabasetofailovergroup?view=azurermps-4.0.0\"> add them to it<\/a> to take advantage of the above benefits at no extra cost. 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