Percona, a provider of open source database software and services, today announced a partnership with HexaCluster, a PostgreSQL migration and services specialist, to help organizations move off ...

Today Stelo announces its Open Mirroring partnership with Microsoft Fabric. Stelo is now listed as an official Open Mirroring partner on Microsoft's webpage, joining a select ecosystem of data ...

Three years ago, a client asked me a question I now hear at least once a month: "Should we run our SQL Server on Azure or AWS?" It sounds simple. It isn't. The team had already short-listed AWS RDS ...

Microsoft delivered fixes for issues affecting everything from Windows to Office, .NET, and SQL Server, and several patches that should be deployed ASAP. Microsoft this week released 139 updates ...

Description: Script is creating objects for monitoring of replication subscriptions health state. Very simple solution for sending you emails when some subsciption is not running or containing warning ...

If it’s not scripted, it’s not safe. So I did exactly that. I scripted my entire replication topology — distributor, publication, articles, agents — everything. The idea was simple: if UAT gets ...

The system-to-administrator ratio is commonly used as a rough metric to understand administrative costs in high-scale services. With smaller, less automated services this ratio can be as low as 2:1, ...

A step-by-step guide to deploying, configuring, and testing a multi-AZ, multi-region SQL Server FCI in the Azure cloud, complete with a PowerShell script that handles the networking configuration.

Sometimes the best option is the simplest, even when it comes to databases. While many developers reach for Postgres or MySQL by default, might it be better to take the more lightweight approach to ...

MySQL and PostgreSQL are two of the most used open source SQL databases, and both fulfill the role of a general-purpose database well. How do you choose which one to use for a project? Let's look at ...