Microsoft has detailed a couple of improvements to the way Azure SQL Database handles failovers in case of an outage. It works with individual databases, elastic pools, or a combination of both. The ...

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While the cloud continues to grow in popularity for many, if not most, enterprise applications, IT departments remain reluctant to trust public clouds, including the Google Cloud Platform, for ...

So last night I was building a SQL Server 2008 failover cluster in a virtual environment with Windows Server 2008 on the free version of VMware Server. When building clusters on VMware, I typically ...

SANTA CLARA, CA--(Marketwired - May 11, 2016) - ScaleArc, the leading provider of database load balancing software, today announced its latest version of ScaleArc for SQL Server broadens support for ...

As I understand it if you are using mirroring on SQL server and have failover setup you can adjust the connection strings of your applications that use it so they ...

We've had SQL 2005 mirroring running successfully for a while now, but the issue I have is our applications reference the primary server by name directly and when the mirror fails over to box #2 I'm ...

A step-by-step guide to using SAN-less failover clustering software to support SQL Server’s Always On Failover Clustering in the public cloud The thing about clouds is that they can change shape even ...