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 ...

We've had SQL 2005 mirroring running successfully for a while now, but the issue I have is our applications reference the primary server by name directly and when the mirror fails over to box #2 I'm ...

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 ...

For step-by-step instructions on installing a SQL Server 2008 single instance or multiple instance failover cluster on Windows Server 2008 reference – Chapter 12 “Implementing and Managing Failover ...

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 ...

Definitely, failover clustering is a hot topic within the SQL community – specifically if you are trying to obtain high availability and minimize data loss. My latest title SQL Server 2008 Management ...

When SQL Server 2005 is released to manufacturing in the next few months, Microsoft will take the exceptional step of designating one of its high-profile features as being intended for evaluation only ...

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 ...