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.

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

While clustering SQL Server or building an availability group aren't trivial operations, they are mature, well-documented processes that operate with Windows Server Failover Clustering.

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.

In SQL Server 2012, the columnstore indexes are non-clustered and cannot be updated other than by rebuilding the entire index. SQL Server 2014 introduces clustered columnstore indexes, which ...

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.

Set Up FILESTREAM on a Failover Cluster [!INCLUDE SQL Server] This topic describes how to enable FILESTREAM on a failover cluster. Before you try this procedure, you should understand failover ...