Our final sprint to the finish line stretches over replication: its limitations, high availability and the many improvements since the last version. Over our previous three stages you made it through ...

- we will deploy a custom intranet web app (web server + app server + db server) across 3 geographical regions. - testing confirms that latency between the 3 regions is too high (actual bandwidth is ...

Almost all database workloads are now (or eventually will be) virtualized. High availability (HA) clusters using virtual servers provide the application protection needed to satisfy even the most ...

One of the long-standing differentiators between SQL Server’s Enterprise Edition (EE) and Standard Edition (SE), besides price, were the large number of features available only in EE. This is also ...

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.

Microsoft has two primary platform as a service (PaaS) offerings for SQL Server running Azure: Azure SQL Database, which is primarily used for new applications that were developed and grown in the ...