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

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 ...

Last month I attended a session on Failover Clustering at the SQL PASS Summit Conference and it was very enlightening. I have not done too much with SQL Server Failover Clustering except in test ...

Some are available from cloud service providers, including as options for PaaS SQL Server offerings. And some are provided by third parties in purpose-built failover clustering software. A common ...

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 ...

There is a control plane job execution engine from Azure into SQL Server Big Data clusters, which allows cluster management jobs that are system- or user-initiated. For example, this could be ...

We plan to implement a 2-node MS SQL 2000 or 2005 cluster and I need to know the requirements.<BR><BR>Here are some info that I gathered:<BR><BR>* Windows Server 2003 Enterprise or Datacenter ...

BR><BR>In any event:<BR><BR>I'm trying to lab up SQL Server 2008 in a 2-node Windows 2008 cluster. I've got the Windows cluster running, and I've got SQL Server running on node 1. When I go to ...

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.

utilize MapReduce on the Hadoop cluster instead of SQL, when and where appropriate. Although PolyBase will initially appear only in SQL Server PDW, it seems likely that the technology will migrate ...