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What is the purpose of MS SQL Always On Availability Group Read-Only Intent?

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Hi there,

Read-only allows all connections to be able to read off the database.

What is the the real purpose/benefit of "Read-Only Intent"? I know you have to change your connection string to include read-only intent before it can read data off the db, but what is the purpose of doing this? from my perspective it's just another extra step to a process.

Can someone enlighten me on what the benefits are in read-only intent?  Wouldn't I rather just put all secondary replicas to read-only and be done with it?  No need to add extra strings to connect.

If you can provide a scenario that would be great to help me understand this better.  I'm reading a bunch of information about it, but it's just telling me it forces the application to add read-only intent to the connection string.  

Thanks!

-CJ


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