Recently organizations, fellow SQL Server MVPs and DBAs have asked me for resources on how to install a SQL Server 2008 Failover Cluster from both a SQL Server and a Windows Server 2008 perspective.

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 ...

CPU issues have long been the bane of database and system administrators. I have worked on enterprise databases since the mid-1980s and seen three significant eras for CPU architecture and ...

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 ...

This seems like more of a server room question than one for the MS forum, but if I'm wrong let me know and I'll ask for a lock/move.<BR><BR>In any event:<BR><BR>I'm trying to lab up SQL Server 2008 in ...

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 ...

Sanbolic offers Melio, a family of products, designed to provide the capability to increase database and virtual desktop availability and performance through clustering. Sanbolic is calling this ...