Whenever I talk about being mission...

kevin.parks 41073 (4/15/2014)

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Caruncles (4/15/2014)

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Since I didn't know what "clustering" was (other than an inference in a Clint Eastwood movie) it was an interesting learning event for me. I need...

Bill (DBAOnTheGo) (4/15/2014)

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I have a feeling Allan feels a little bit better now.

Seriously though. There's a lot of good information there. We appreciate it. we had a 6 node...

As a Cluster MVP and someone many think of when it comes to clustering SQL Server, I have to disagree. Not every configuration should be clustered.

While clustered configurations of SQL...

robert_verell (4/15/2014)

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Nice post about clustering and I agree on the nice points of it, but I disagree about clustering everything. Even in production. I like clustering as an...

john.deprato (4/15/2014)

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You could use "active/active" clustering to get use out of the other hardware, however, if you have to fail-over during a maintenance period you have to run both instances...

No. In the same WSFC, all nodes must be the same major version.

Mark Jones-393934 (5/27/2011)

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So Active / Active / Active / Passive or AP+N, I really don’t care, the purpose of this article was to convey my experiences with you all on...

Actually, A/A and A/P are wrong terminology for SQL Server. I helped start that way back in the SQL Server 2000 days when I was still an employee of MS...

hydbadrose (1/13/2011)

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We will be having the cluster SQL server 2008 and 2005 and both the servers will have multiple named instances. Do I have to have the one default and...