In a world that appears to be governed by Murphy's Laws, anything can go wrong. Accidents ranging from machine crashes, media failures, operator errors and random data corruption to such catastrophes ...

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 ...

Backups, snapshots, cloning and replication are all valuable ways of protecting the organisation’s data. In this article, we’ll look at replication, in particular between storage arrays. Key to this ...

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 ...

BANGALORE, INDIA: With enterprises growing larger each day, it has become customary for most of them to distribute their databases across locations. For instance, a national level company might wish ...

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 ...