To prevent and diagnose availability, health, and performance issues it is essential to review and manage the configuration of SQL Server instances and databases. Whether you want to view and modify ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

How to Create a Microsoft SQL Instance. Microsoft SQL is a relational database you can configure to run as multiple copies, or instances, on a single computer.

Microsoft's database releases from 2008 and 2010 reach end of extended support. In response, Redmond says, that for many customers, the time for cloud migration has arrived.

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.

If this option is blank, double-check to make sure you have installed the Reporting Service on your SCOM server, not on your SQL Server. Figure 8: Choose your Reporting Service instance.

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 ...