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 ...

SQL Server’s other HA/DR feature, Always On Availability Groups, is a more robust solution capable of providing rapid recoveries with no data loss. Among its other advantages are inclusion in SQL ...

Among the concerns is the increased risk and complexity associated with running SQL Server in any public cloud, where high-availability (HA) clustering configurations can be challenging to ...

Click through for a closer look at how organizations can ensure high-availability SQL Server cloud deployments by using SANless clusters, as identified by Jerry Melnick, president and CEO of SIOS ...

For quite a while, I was under the impression that AlwaysOn was Microsoft’s term for the successor to database mirroring, a useful high availability feature introduced in SQL Server 2005 SP1. But as ...

Even SQL Server's Always On high availability feature works - and Windows and Linux instances can be mixed together in the same Availability Group. Performance is also comparable on the two platforms.

He also listed the following new capabilities in SQL Server 2016: Additional security enhancements for Row-level Security and Dynamic Data Masking to round out security investments with Always ...

A major challenge when considering this option from Microsoft is how to maintain SQL Server availability. High availability clustering solutions used on premises are not possible in Azure due to ...