SQL Server instances, even if equipped with provisions like automatic backup and recovery, are not sufficiently protected against sudden, disastrous situations like multi-site database failure, ...

Azure SQL Managed Instance General Purpose is "a tier of Microsoft's relational database service, based on SQL Server, that operates like an on-premises SQL Server instance," Snodgrass explained ...

Do you need to find out where the location of your SQL Server's database is? Here's a quick tip.

The SQL Server technology family's innovations extend beyond the "box product" (i.e. on-premises SQL Server), though. For example, Microsoft is bringing Azure SQL Database Managed Instance to ...

Clearly, the opportunity to deploy SQL Server on something other than a Windows Server means you can take advantage of the database's capabilities without having to manage Windows hosts to do it.

Many customers choose to run their Microsoft SQL Server workloads on Amazon RDS for SQL Server to take advantage of its fully-managed services, high performance, and straight forward homogeneous ...

Ask 10 people 'What is high availability?' and you might get 15 different answers. For the purposes here, HA will be defined as ensuring SQL Server is operating when and as needed. 'When' takes into ...

For instance, it's possible to run SQL Server 2012 and support older SQL Server database versions simultaneously as well, according to the publication.

One way that organizations are storing data in the cloud is by moving their databases to the cloud. What once meant building an entire physical server, patching it, installing software like Microsoft ...

Pairing your on-prem SQL Server with a cloud-based instance for high availability has its challenges, but they can be overcome. Here’s how.