U sing a series of demos drawn from his latest book, Bill guides you through the maze of issues you'll face as you connect to, manage, and monitor SQL Server instances including the new SQL Express ...

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4. If I try #2 & #3 on a SQL 2005 instance, I get the same failure/success as SQL 2008 R2 5. If I try #2 & #3 with SQL 2012 or SQL 2014 both successfully read the header ...

This gives DB administrators two basic options: keep Microsoft SQL Server and other critical applications r on-premise or add replication software to create a SANLess cluster in the cloud.

SQL Server offers lots of tools for managing a single instance, but when you want to orchestrate multiple servers it can fall short. This is where products such as the server virtualization ...

As ever, it depends. Most of my SQL Express instances (vCenter etc.) are just snapped as part of the VM image as it's fairly unlikely I'll want the database back all by itself.

If not, just remove SQL Server 2008 R2 and select the instance you are trying to install (Don’t remove anything else). If it’s not there, then leave it and let’s go to the next step.

Today, however, Google is launching the Cloud SQL API. This new REST API will allow developers to programmatically manage their database instances and open up a number of new use cases for Cloud SQL.