A step-by-step guide to deploying, configuring, and testing a multi-AZ, multi-region SQL Server FCI in the Azure cloud, complete with a PowerShell script that handles the networking configuration.

To update or remove a [!INCLUDEssNoVersion] failover cluster, you must be a local administrator with permission to login as a service on all nodes of the Windows Server failover cluster. If you ...

Technical documentation for Microsoft SQL Server, tools such as SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) , SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) etc. - MicrosoftDocs/sql-docs ...

Creating compliant failover clusters in the Google Cloud One way to build a fully supported SQL Server FCI for high availability involves using third party SANless failover clustering software.

Discover key strategies for optimizing SQL Server failover clustering to ensure high availability and disaster recovery in Business Intelligence.

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.

Other cluster workloads like SQL Server AlwaysOn Failover Cluster Instance (FCI) and SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups (AGs) can be upgraded with minimal downtime which is equivalent to failover ...

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 ...

SQL Server customers have other choices for the same capabilities – for example, Windows Server Failover Clustering — but Boxley says they are more expensive.