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 ...

I'm currently trying to develop a SQL cluster for our production databases. One of my goals is to make it possible to load balance the databases without needing to reconfigure the client. Also it ...

My latest title SQL Server 2008 Management and Administration includes a dedicated chapter on how to design and implement a SQL Server 2008 Failover Clustering when running on Windows Server 2008.

So we're looking at doing a SQL 2014 cluster to replace all of our standalone SQL boxes everywhere, mathematically it makes sense, but I'm running into issues with our environment and my googling ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft has gone public with a production customer using its Distributed Partition Views technology in SQL Server 2000.

Xkoto releases a new version of its GridScale software for IBM DB2 and Microsoft SQL Server with new clustering technology. The company's technology is also available on Amazon EC2, a move that ...

Non-clustered Columnstore Indexes are also getting some enhancements in SQL Server 2016. The most notable of these enhancements is the ability to be updated.