There were a number of new features announced for Availability Groups in SQL Server 2016 at Microsoft Ignite 2015 this week. Which of these features do you think will have the biggest impact to the feature.
- Database level failover trigger
- DTC support
- Better automatic failover support
- Log transport performance
- Load balanced readable secondaries
- gMSA support (group Managed Service Accounts)
- Standard Edition support
If you'd like to watch the session where these new features were talked about, you can watch or download the session here: Microsoft SQL Server End-to-End High Availability and Disaster Recovery by Denny Cherry and Joey D'Antoni
Personally, I think Standard Edition support will have the biggest impact. It opens up Availability Groups to a much wider audience.