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

It used to handle Crystal Reports, Quickbooks, SQL Server, Active Directory (inactive), so yeah everything on one server - great time. It's also dog slow and was deprecated some time ago for ...

The company's goal is addressing the product limitations of Microsoft's SQL Server. These limitations force organizations to deploy multiple instances of the product on separate systems (virtual ...

One of the points we discussed in episode 9 regarding SQL servers and virtualization was the challenge of performing a physical-to-virtual (P2V) conversion of a database server. There are many ways to ...

Organizations that operate Microsoft SQL Server may have to rethink their database virtualization strategy, thanks to the upcoming release of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2. The new R2 version adds ...

PolyBase, a data virtualization feature for SQL Server, allows users to seamlessly query data from various external sources directly using T-SQL (Transact-SQL) without the need for separate client ...

I suspect this will allow for virtual machine (VM) managed identities to connect to Azure storage and other Azure resources. SQL Server has supported backing up to Azure blob storage since a late ...

SQL virtual database is a new solution that lets database administrators and developers attach SQL Server backup files and query them like they were "live" SQL Server databases. This patent-pending ...