At Microsoft Build, SQL Server 2025 enters public preview with major enhancements in AI integration, performance, reliability and developer tools -- reaffirming Microsoft’s continued investment in its ...

Despite its steep licensing costs, SQL Server continues to prove its worth over open-source alternatives in some key areas. SQL Server is an expensive part of your IT stack -- SQL Server Enterprise ...

Ignite A new version of Microsoft's database warhorse, SQL Server, is on the way, with some useful improvements squeezed between the inevitable artificial intelligence additions. New in SQL Server ...

Creating a Failover Cluster in the Windows server ensures high availability and reliability for apps and services. In this article, we will explain how to create a failover cluster in Windows Server, ...

IT teams face the question of cost in any discussion of application high availability (HA) or disaster recovery (DR). They are concerned about the cost of redundancy needed to protect their ...

“We need seven nines of availability. By the way, our budget is $14.” Customer with lofty High Availability (HA) goals and no real budget to support it, unfortunately, is a common scenario for IT ...

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 ...