There is a control plane job execution engine from Azure into SQL Server Big Data clusters, which allows cluster management jobs that are system- or user-initiated. For example, this could be ...

A step-by-step guide to deploying, configuring, and testing a multi-AZ, multi-region SQL Server FCI in the Azure cloud, ...

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 ...

Last month I attended a session on Failover Clustering at the SQL PASS Summit Conference and it was very enlightening. I have not done too much with SQL Server Failover Clustering except in test ...

This approach relies on several network systems outside of the database proper, namely the SQL Server browser and DNS services. The implementation’s primary goal is to make the cluster ...

Some are available from cloud service providers, including as options for PaaS SQL Server offerings. And some are provided by third parties in purpose-built failover clustering software. A common ...

BR><BR>In any event:<BR><BR>I'm trying to lab up SQL Server 2008 in a 2-node Windows 2008 cluster. I've got the Windows cluster running, and I've got SQL Server running on node 1. When I go to ...

So last night I was building a SQL Server 2008 failover cluster in a virtual environment with Windows Server 2008 on the free version of VMware Server. When building clusters on VMware, I ...

utilize MapReduce on the Hadoop cluster instead of SQL, when and where appropriate. Although PolyBase will initially appear only in SQL Server PDW, it seems likely that the technology will migrate ...