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 ...

Recently organizations, fellow SQL Server MVPs and DBAs have asked me for resources on how to install a SQL Server 2008 Failover Cluster from both a SQL Server and a Windows Server 2008 perspective.

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 ...

AI success depends on whether enterprise data is ready, reachable, and close enough to the workloads that need it. In this eSpeaks episode, Dell Technologies’ Vrashank Jain explains why fragmented ...

I'm currently trying to develop a SQL cluster for our production databases. One of my goals is to make it possible to load balance the databases without needing to reconfigure the client. Also it ...

DBAs have many options for how to ensure high availability (HA) for SQL Server. Some of these options are available in the different versions and editions of SQL Server itself. Some are available in ...

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 know the name of the other server to ...

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 ...

One of the really great things about Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 is that it removes the requirement for shared storage. Microsoft recommends the use of a cluster shared volume ...

Creating a Failover Cluster in the Windows server ensures high availability and reliability for apps and services. In this article, we will explain how to create a failover cluster in Windows Server, ...