Databases are among the last of the tier 1 applications to be hosted on virtual servers, but the past year has seen a huge wave of increase for production Oracle, SQL Server and other databases on ...

Idera, a provider of Microsoft SQL Server management and administration tools, announced SQL virtual database 1.3, the latest release for this solution that enables backup files to look and act just ...

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Server virtualization is an efficient way to save on server hardware costs, real estate, and management resources, but it isn’t the only way. Just ask the folks at Avanade, a systems integrator ...

Server-virtualization software imposes no constraints on the versions of Windows Server operating system (or Linux) that you place in each virtual machine (although a completely new version of Windows ...

A group of folks from DH2i; including Don Boxley, Founder and CEO; Carl Berglund, Sales Director; and Mindy Chase, Director of Marketing; stopped by to introduce DH2i DxConsole® HADR Edition for ...

PolyBase, a data virtualization feature for SQL Server, allows users to seamlessly query data from various external sources directly using T-SQL (Transact-SQL) without the need for separate client ...

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Databases are evolving faster than ever, becoming more fluid to keep pace with an online world that’s becoming virtualized at every level. In many ways, the database as we know it is disappearing into ...

This week, I again had the opportunity to be on the Virtumania podcast with Rich Brambley, Marc Farley and a special SQL server guest, http://www.brentozar.com/ Brent ...

Server virtualization through the use of software products such as VMware has been implemented to varying degrees in corporate IT, with some successful and some not-so-successful outcomes. This year, ...

You have been charged with providing a single point through which all those databases can be accessed and managed — and no read-only, screen-scraping, funny stuff, either. Your superiors want ...