Protecting your SQL Server on Azure VMs at the database level can be done using availability groups as a high-availability and disaster recovery (HADR) solution. Replicas running in Azure VMs in the same region provide high availability. A domain controller VM is neede...
Protecting your SQL Server on Azure VMs at the database level can be done using availability groups as a high-availability and disaster recovery (HADR) solution. Replicas running in Azure VMs in the same region provide high availability. A domain controller VM is needed since Windows fail...
These mechanisms protect the high availability of the VMs but not the high availability of SQL Server running inside the VMs. It is possible for the SQL Server instance to fail while the VM is online and healthy. Moreover, even the high availability mechanisms provided by Azure allow for ...
General availability (GA) The following table lists features of SQL Server on Azure VMs that have been made generally available (GA) within the last 12 months: ChangesMonthDetails Mbv3 VM seriesNovember 2024A powerful new VM series that currently delivers a high level of IOPs and ...
This means that instead of the VM down approach to HA we need to look at the VM up side of things to see what can be done. Often this means that the application itself must have some concept of high availability baked in. That is, it should be able to run on multiple virtual ...
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In this episode of Data Exposed: MVP Edition, Javier Villegas will describe the concept of SQL Server Failover Cluster Instances (FCI) covering how we can use them for High Availability purposes using Azure Virtual Machines and the different Azure Storage options. Recently...
Both these tools collect performance data from your source SQL Server instances hosting your databases and recommend minimum Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, or SQL Server on Azure VM SKU based on the data collected. The feature provides recommendations related to pri...
Azure SQL Managed Instance is a scalable cloud database service that's always running on the latest stable version of theMicrosoft SQL Server database engineand a patched OS with99.99% built-in high availability, offering close to 100% feature compatibility with SQL Server. PaaS capabilities built...