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. If one node fails, another ...

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 ...

I have an application which we intend to deploy to a multinode, active/active SQL cluster. This application has two types of databases - one is an operational store, of which there can be N of ...

Database virtualization vendor Xkoto has its eye on enhancing cloud computing and cluster management for Microsoft SQL Server and IBM DB2. The company released GridScale 5.1, the latest version of ...

When Microsoft SQL Server databases are migrated to AWS, the first choice is Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server. However, there are cases where Amazon RDS is not suitable ...