Anyone running a clustered MS SQL setup on top of vSphere? This will be something new for us, but we have a database that can't go down ever. I remember reading about this in passing a couple of ...

When designed to support SQL Server, the failover cluster creates a high-performance, high-availability environment that is easy to manage.

I'm currently trying to develop a SQL cluster for our production databases. One of my goals is to make it possible to load balance the databases without needing to reconfigure the client. Also it ...

SQL Server 2014 will offer Clustered Columnstore Indexes. These will offer the performance and compression benefits of column-oriented storage without the need to restrict the underlying table to ...

Sanbolic AppCluster, a Microsoft SQL Server specific module within its Melio™ software, extends the agility, high availability (HA), and scalability of SQL Server workloads across physical ...

Microsoft has gone public with a production customer using its Distributed Partition Views technology in SQL Server 2000.

Non-clustered Columnstore Indexes are also getting some enhancements in SQL Server 2016. The most notable of these enhancements is the ability to be updated.

Next was “SQL Server 2008 Failover Clustering” with Max Verun from Microsoft. This session was standing room only a full 15 minutes before the start time.

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 ...

Microsoft has gone public with a production customer using its Distributed Partition Views technology in SQL Server 2000.