SQL Server clustering provides a core layer of high availability (HA) for your databases. It enables multiple servers (called nodes) to work together as a single unit.

Ask 10 people 'What is high availability?' and you might get 15 different answers. For the purposes here, HA will be defined as ensuring SQL Server is operating when and as needed. 'When' takes into ...

Business intelligence (BI) is a critical component for any organization relying on data-driven decisions. SQL Server, a popular database management system, offers clustering as a high-availability ...

When the AG is on an instance of SQL Server in a WSFC, transitioning out of ONLINE state for the database causes the AG health to report a fault. In response, the cluster manager triggers a failover ...

Not only is SQL Server Big Data clusters doing data virtualization and Big Data, but we are providing a managed Database as a Service (DBaaS) platform, which provides HA [high-availability ...

The guidance provided then still works, but changes in the Google Cloud mean that organizations wanting a cloud-based infrastructure supporting SQL Server at 99.99 percent availability levels now ...

Learn to configure an availability group when running Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) for SQL Server. SQL Server is not as tightly integrated with Pacemaker on Linux as it is with Windows Server ...

Extending to Disaster Recovery for SQL Server in Azure. It’s easy to envision adding a third cluster VM in an AG- or SANless cluster-based HA configuration to support DR. One simply adds a SQL Server ...

Sanbolic's AppCluster with public cloud support will enable Rackspace customers to create new and/or migrate existing SQL Server clusters to the Rackspace public cloud. In doing so, it will ...

When designed to support SQL Server, the failover cluster creates a high-performance, high-availability environment that is easy to manage. Limitations on SQL Server high availability in the ...