They do have a cluster: http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2012/09/microsoft-sql-server-alwayson-ags-at-stackoverflow/ http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2012/09/mi

They do have a cluster: http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2012/09/microsoft-sql-server-alwayson-ags-at-stackoverflow/ http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2012/09/microsoft-sql-serve... They just run everything through one live database all the time under normal conditions. Personally, I think this is much simpler to manage than to be regularly spreading out queries over many queries.