Log Shipping and Logins Establishing a failover server for your SQL Server? First things, first: strategize on your logins. By Eric Johnson 06/28/2010 So you decided to set up log shipping in ...

description: This article describes how to rename a SQL Server instance that is part of a failover cluster, which differs from renaming a stand-alone instance.

The recent versions of Microsoft SQL Server include several high-availability solutions like failover clustering, database mirroring, log shipping and replication.

The use of event logs to replicate data creates a “replication lag” that causes temporary outages during a failover. The service currently supports only MySQL and PostgreSQL, but not SQL Server.

Creating compliant failover clusters in the Google Cloud One way to build a fully supported SQL Server FCI for high availability involves using third party SANless failover clustering software.