A debate over what is the best way to assure high availability of Microsoft SQL Server databases on the Microsoft Azure cloud has emerged. Historically, Microsoft has encouraged IT teams to employ ...

Welcome to the first of a two-part series. In this first part, I'll talk about the physical infrastructure that Microsoft uses to ensure availability and provide a high degree of uptime for the Azure ...

The public cloud offers a myriad of options for providing high availability and disaster recovery protections for SQL Server database applications. Conversely, some of the options available in a ...

Microsoft offers two paths for running enterprise databases: SQL Server, which you install and manage yourself, and Azure SQL, which Microsoft runs for you as a managed service. Both use the same ...

Running SQL Server in the cloud can give users of the database software more flexibility and scalability than on-premises deployments offer -- and maybe save them some money, too. But things often go ...

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.