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 ...

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 ...

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When Microsoft SQL Server databases are migrated to AWS, the first choice is Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server. However, there are cases where Amazon RDS is not suitable ...

Recovering from operating system failure this way can take time. If the operating system failure can be recovered easily, avoid using this technique. For more information, see Create a New SQL Server ...

Definitely, failover clustering is a hot topic within the SQL community – specifically if you are trying to obtain high availability and minimize data loss. My latest title SQL Server 2008 Management ...

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 ...