A step-by-step guide to deploying, configuring, and testing a multi-AZ, multi-region SQL Server FCI in the Azure cloud, ...

AlwaysOn is a new way of performing SQL Server failovers. It borrows the concept of Database Availability Groups from Exchange Server 2010 (but with some architectural differences). Many database ...

A common strategy for providing high availability protection for SQL Server is to use AlwaysOn Availability Groups, a high availability feature included with SQL Server 2012 Enterprise Edition. It is ...

On-premise, by contrast, where shared storage can and often does exist, FCIs leverage Windows Server Failover Clustering (also a standard feature). Always On Availability Groups is a feature that was ...

There are two fundamental ways to do this. You could configure a multi-node Always On Availability Group (AG), a feature of SQL Server itself, or you could use Windows Server Failover Clustering ...

While clustering SQL Server or building an availability group aren't trivial operations, they are mature, well-documented processes that operate with Windows Server Failover Clustering.

So while SQL Server 2022 enables migrating workloads to Azure SQL Managed Instance with virtually no downtime using distributed availability groups, users can also restore databases back to SQL ...

The standard technology many SQL Server pros rely on for HA, availability groups (AGs), has not been supported in containers—until now. In this webinar, Microsoft's Amit Khandelwal and DH2i's ...

A year and a half ago, Microsoft announced that it will be bringing SQL Server to Linux, offering the first public preview later on that year. At the company’s Ignite 2017 conference today ...

At its Ignite conference in Orlando today, Microsoft released a new version of its core relational database, SQL Server. The new version, SQL Server 2019, takes important capabilities in its ...