by David | Mar 31, 2012 | SQL Server, Virtualization
Before you can create your AlwaysOn availability group, you must first configure your two or more server nodes as a Microsoft Failover Cluster. It’s a trivial task if you are not using shared disks. Follow along as I create a two node cluster with Windows Server...
by David | Mar 25, 2012 | Performance, SQL Server, Virtualization
Microsoft recently released SQL Server 2012 to the wild just a couple of weeks ago. Even though this release is in its infancy, organizations and their database administrators should immediately begin to explore and plan for the adoption of this release into their...
by David | Mar 11, 2012 | SQL Server, Technology
I finally found enough time this weekend to sit down in my lab and spend some time with SQL Server 2012. There’s nothing ground-breaking in this post… just some screenshots of the installation process. More experimentation with AlwaysOn and other...
