In the fourth part of the series, we are looking at a last reference configuration before moving to the actual doing part. In regards to terms and basics it might be very helpful to read the first part of the series here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/saponsqlserver...

The Transaction Log of a SQL Server database is composed of one or more physical files. For each database, SQL Server only writes to one physical transaction log file at a time. Although some firms choose to have more than one physical log file, the general...

After having learned how AlwaysOn handles quorum detection and how a Standard SAP/SQL Server WSFC configuration can be used w/o large changes to the WSFC configuration increase availability of SQL the SAP database(s) by using non-shared disks, we want...

After giving an overview on AlwaysOn in the first part of the series of articles, we now need to go a bit more in the details around Availability Groups and why we don’t need a witness instance anymore. Or how do we make sure that there is a quorum...

This is the first one of several articles we will provide about the new SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn functionality. In this part we will go over the terms, capabilities and differences to SQL Server Database Mirroring (DBM). In subsequent other parts we will...

Microsoft Private Cloud In the first few parts of this blog series the focus will be on private cloud. A lot of information can be found about it on the Internet. An important milestone is definitely the new System Center release 2012. Under the...