By Ron Talmage, 11/20/2007
HP PolyServe Database Utility for SQL Server offers simplified consolidation and failover for SQL Server but requires careful planning to install.
By Ron Talmage, 02/22/2006
In SQL Server 2005, Microsoft not only added database mirroring to achieve higher availability but also substantially improved existing availability features.
By Ron Talmage, 07/19/2005
The release of SQL Server 2005 brings lots of changes in every aspect of the product. Join Kalen Delaney and Ron Talmage on an exploration of the new management tools.
By Ron Talmage, 12/23/2002
Lumigent Technologies' Log Explorer lets you recover transaction log data, often while the system is running—-and you can select exactly the transactions you want to restore.
By Ron Talmage, 12/19/2001
Now that you've seen how you can easily set up, reconfigure, and monitor log shipping in SQL Server 2000, beef up your knowledge of role changes, role reversals, and where to ...
By Ron Talmage, 12/19/2001
Although SQL Server 2000's Standard Edition lacks the log shipping utility that the Enterprise and Developer Editions contain, you can use the Simple Log Shipping Tool to ship ...
By Ron Talmage, 11/20/2001
If you require maximum database availability and can't afford the downtime of restoring very large databases, split-mirror technology offers an easy-to-use, hardware-based ...
By Ron Talmage, 11/20/2001
See how SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Manager provides built-in functionality that makes log shipping easy to set up, reconfigure, and monitor.
By Ron Talmage, 11/20/2001
Learn more about Storage Area Networks.
By Ron Talmage, 01/24/2001
Lumigent Technologies introduces the first tool that lets you read SQL Server 7.0 transaction logs.
By Ron Talmage, 11/27/2000
Check out this robust yet low-cost, low-tech road to high availability and disaster protection.
By Ron Talmage, 11/27/2000
SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition full supports log shipping.
By Ron Talmage, 07/18/2000
Armed with a new interface and other enhancements, Embarcadero's data modeling tool is poised to go head-to-head with market leader PLATINUM ERwin/ERX.
By Ron Talmage, 11/18/1999
Sylvain Faust’s SQL-Programmer, a third-party, general-purpose SQL Server utility development tool, provides cross-platform capability for any combination of SQL Server, Sybase ...
By Ron Talmage, 06/01/1999
Is CAST Workbench the developer's killer app?
By Ron Talmage, 06/01/1999
A new version of CAST Workbench, 3.72, interfaces with SQL Server 7.0.