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 ...

Storage and performance can be quite different in the cloud. It's important to choose the right VM size and configure your storage properly to keep SQL Server workloads running smoothly. Microsoft ...

Almost all database workloads are now (or eventually will be) virtualized. High availability (HA) clusters using virtual servers provide the application protection needed to satisfy even the most ...

You are following the documented best practices for Windows Server and SQL Server. You are using a dedicated server that runs SQL Server 2008 R2. You are using a single instance of SQL Server that is ...

Microsoft SQL Server installation is simple when system requirements and edition choices are planned.Choosing the right authentication mode, such as ...