KB4344904 - Improvement enables CREATE AVAILABILITY GROUP and ALTER AVAILABILITY GROUP DDLs to set the SESSION_TIMEOUT for a configuration-only replica in SQL Server

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Applies To

SQL Server 2017 Developer SQL Server 2017 Enterprise SQL Server 2017 Enterprise Core

Summary

This article describes an improvement in how Microsoft SQL Server handles a configuration-only replica that uses an Always On availability group that has CLUSTER_TYPE = NONE or CLUSTER_TYPE = EXTERNAL values. This improvement enables you to use the CREATE AVAILABILITY GROUP and ALTER AVAILABILITY GROUP DDL statements to set the SESSION_TIMEOUT property for the configuration-only replica.

More information

This improvement is included in the following update for SQL Server:

Cumulative Update 10 for SQL Server 2017

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