Take the tour ×  I was thinking if the AlwaysOn architecture in
SQL Server 2012 can be leveraged somehow to create a replica for
DEV and QA environment properly in addition to setting up HADR
using the same architecture?  share|improve this question Well,
you can't write to replicas so it wouldn't make much sense as a
dev environment. Even QA would only work for read-only
operations. Can you clarify exactly what types of goals you want
to accomplish rolling Dev and QA into your production
Availability Groups? –  Aaron Bertrand May 10 at 21:34 add
comment  3 Answers  up vote 5 down vote accepted  As Aaron
Bertrand mentioned in his comment, AlwaysOn is only designed to
support offloading of read-only operations, in addition to its
(really neat) redundancy capabilities.  If all you're looking
for is a place where your developers can check out the
production data without putting load on the production server,
then perhaps it's a technology that might be useful - but you
can achieve pretty much the same thing with