You say application database server, but not what application, # of users, or expected load. Optimally for a production performance SQL server you would have 2 drives in raid 1 for OS, 2 drives in ...

Windows 7 includes an ODBC manager that lets you connect from your desktop to a SQL server. You create a data source name (DSN) to save database setup information, so you can open a connection to the ...

In SQL Server Database Mirroring, the quorum is 2 out of 3. For high-safety mode with automatic failover, commonly called “High Availability” mode, quorum makes sure that a database is owned by only ...

Pairing your on-prem SQL Server with a cloud-based instance for high availability has its challenges, but they can be overcome. Here’s how. The geographic distribution of cloud data centers makes it ...