A No version of SQL Server supports load balancing in the manner you discuss. However, there are a number of high-availability techniques to separate the processing load onto different servers. For example: Peer-to-peer replication (new in SQL Server 2005) ...
A SQL Server running in an Azure virtual machine (IaaS) is equivalent to an on-premises SQL Server. You will notice that several features described for SQL Server on Azure virtual machine are applicable to all your on-premises SQL Servers....
In this scenario, you scale out the presentation tier and the business tier components in multiple virtual machines in Azure. In addition, you implement high availability and disaster recovery (HADR) techniques for SQL Server databases in Azure....
In farms with multiple PowerPivot servers, PowerPivot automatically performs load-balancing in a round-robin fashion or based on server health, depending on the system configuration. Each PowerPivot service application maintains an internal list of available servers and datasets in the farm, which PowerP...
For specific information on I/O tuning and balancing, you will find more details in the following document. NT Server and Disk Subsystem Performance https://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winntas/maintain/ntserv.mspx Torn I/O Torn I/O is often referred to as atorn pagein SQL Server...
Managing SQL Server Nodes Once the SQL Server cluster is set up, you can manage the nodes using various tools and techniques. For example, you can manually failover a SQL Server instance from one node to another using the SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) or PowerShell. You can also use...
Because SDS is accessed over TDS—the same protocol as SQL Server—all the existing tools, client libraries and development techniques continue to work. I hope that by reading this article you have been given a glimpse of the new face of SDS, and that you ca...
Gone are those days where you had to think twice to move your SQL Server workload to the cloud because of the lack of compute power. 32 cores, 448 GB, 64 disks with 80,000 ! Can’t get better than this ! What if I created a VM with a standard pricing tier like DS1 Standard, ...
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The two most common techniques for achieving high availability and business continuity are mirroring and clustering. SQL Server integrates mirroring and clustering technology with "Always On Failover Cluster Instances" and "Always On Availability Groups". ...