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 ...

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.

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.

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'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 ...

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 ...

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.

When designed to support SQL Server, the failover cluster creates a high-performance, high-availability environment that is easy to manage.