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.

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.

1. Change registry key SqlCluster in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.x\Setup\ from 1 to 0 2. Disable TCP/IP in Server Network Protocols and enabled Named Pipes ...