Microsoft has detailed a couple of improvements to the way Azure SQL Database handles failovers in case of an outage. It works with individual databases, elastic pools, or a combination of both.

Microsoft SQL Server has become a business-critical database for a growing number of enterprises that rely on it to run a wide range of essential business processes. As enterprises look to ...

If one server fails, SQL Server automatically starts running on the other, and your app doesn't know anything has changed. Your app just connects using the cluster name, and isn't even aware there ...

Database mirroring is a form of data replication, and this feature was replaced by the much more capable Always On Availability Groups in SQL Server 2012. Mirroring is currently in maintenance mode, ...

We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Microsoft has done a 180-degree turn and decided to support failover clustering for SQL Server running in a virtual machine.

06/28/2010 So you decided to set up log shipping in order to establish a failover server, but what's next? Log shipping only takes care of keeping a user database in sync from one server to the other.

By using a simple wizard, database administrators (and probably non-DBAs too) can configure a provisioned MI in the cloud to serve as a secondary, failover node to a SQL Server 2022 instance on ...

Hybrid SQL-NoSQL database solutions combine the advantage of being compatible with many SQL applications and providing the scalability of NoSQL ones. Xeround offers such a solution as a service in the ...

If organizations use zone-redundant databases with the Azure SQL Database service under the Business Critical tier (also known as "Premium"), then they can now be eligible for a 99.995 percent SLA.