As I understand it if you are using mirroring on SQL server and have failover setup you can adjust the connection strings of your applications that use it so they know the name of the other server to ...

We've had SQL 2005 mirroring running successfully for a while now, but the issue I have is our applications reference the primary server by name directly and when the mirror fails over to box #2 I'm ...

While the cloud continues to grow in popularity for many, if not most, enterprise applications, IT departments remain reluctant to trust public clouds, including the Google Cloud Platform, for ...

A step-by-step guide to deploying, configuring, and testing a multi-AZ, multi-region SQL Server FCI in the Azure cloud, complete with a PowerShell script that handles the networking configuration.

I have been testing out Database Mirroring in SQL Server 2008. There are numerous enhancements in 2008, mainly under the hood in the name of performance and reliability but still worth testing out. I ...

In a previous blog entry, I talked about the new FILESTREAM data capability in SQL Server 2008 where we can store Binary Large Object (BLOB) data on the file system but have it transactionally part of ...

AI success depends on whether enterprise data is ready, reachable, and close enough to the workloads that need it. In this eSpeaks episode, Dell Technologies’ Vrashank Jain explains why fragmented ...