Microsoft announced five Windows Azure improvements yesterday, including SQL Server AlwaysOn support. Most of the improvements to Microsoft's cloud-based Windows Azure are at the "general availability ...

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.

A step-by-step guide to using SAN-less failover clustering software to support SQL Server’s Always On Failover Clustering in the public cloud The thing about clouds is that they can change shape even ...

SQL Server 2012 introduces a lot of new features which, like the columnstore indexes I discussed last month, are inspiring a lot of excitement in the user community. However, there’s been a bit of ...

First, I'm using directions based on SQL Server 2012 Enterprise, and Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard. I'm going to be using SQL Server 2012 Enterprise, and Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard. So my ...

SQL Sentry, Inc., the developer of software for Microsoft SQL Server, has introduced v7.5 of SQL Sentry, which provides integrated, visual monitoring and management for the high availability and ...

Microsoft unveiled a set of improvements to Windows Azure this week. Four of the five new features are now generally available. One feature -- AutoScale support for Windows Azure -- is still at the ...