As I'm preparing to deploy a new 2-node SQL Server 2014 Standard failover cluster, I'm considering what would be the best way to set up its storage. For the reference, the OS will be Windows Server ...

While the cloud continues to grow in popularity for many, if not most, enterprise applications, IT departments remain reluctant to trust public clouds, including the Google Cloud Platform, for ...

The different offerings inside Microsoft’s Azure cloud services get updated pretty frequently, with the latest component to get improvements being Azure SQL Database. For those not familiar, Azure SQL ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Microsoft has done a 180-degree turn and decided to ...

DBAs have many options for how to ensure high availability (HA) for SQL Server. Some of these options are available in the different versions and editions of SQL Server itself. Some are available in ...

As I understand it if you are using mirroring on SQL server and have failover setup you can adjust the connection strings of your applications that use it so they ...

ScaleArc, a leading provider of database load balancing software, announced that it has integrated its ScaleArc for SQL Server software with Microsoft Azure SQL Database. Customers of Microsoft Azure ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. RethinkDB, a scalable NoSQL database that uses ...

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 even ...