I admit confusion over the point in the article: "This prevents more than one Failover Cluster Instance from using the same drive assignments."

My reference here is: "AlwaysOn Architecture Guide:...

One word for the article: Absolutely.

It does help if the developers and DBA's have worn one another's shoes. While swapping jobs is great however it is...

I agree--If they've done nothing, they've got no passion. This isn't easy work. If they don't like the puzzles and the problems, they're better off in Accounting or...

Craig Farrell (5/24/2011)

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It's a perspective. It's not a lack of requirements, it's limiting the requirements to have a starting point, and to allow for clarifications. It's working with...

djackson 22568 (5/24/2011)

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john.richter (5/24/2011)

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To djackson 22568--what you say might be. However, in this case, they had spent a great deal of time, an inordinate amount of time, twice, and...

To djackson 22568--what you say might be. However, in this case, they had spent a great deal of time, an inordinate amount of time, twice, and still came up...

After about 25 years of this stuff, I'd have to say that my experience is that all successful application builds are "agile" regardless of name used on the method. ...

The large company I work for does not get everything right by a good margin, but one excellent policy they have--and it is much more thoroughly ingrained than the word...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (1/14/2011)

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Given past history, and we went through this in many cases with web servers, the ASP/outsourced/"cloud" providers have performed in a mixed role. Plenty of...

Steve, I'll try this...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (1/12/2011)

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You are right and wrong here. Similar arguments were made against web servers being off-premises. Today tons of companies do this and it works.

Not saying...

I'm afraid this misses the point: 'Avoiding "the cloud" because it's "less secure" assumes that your local servers/computers are completely secure.'

Security--unlike resiliency, redundancy and availability--decreases with additional...

I'm afraid I agree with just about every comment. And for the sake of completeness, I will add that the odds of a security failure are multiplied many times...

Interesting results. This feature just became more desirable. I do wonder how caching affects results. BTW, 'peaked' should be 'piqued' in the sense of to excite or...

The article presents very basic concepts, which obviously was intended. People who miss the foundations, never build high. I do think the results in 4 are 5 are...