Things break and the DBA must be prepared for situations where a failure impacts the availability, integrity, or usability of a database. Reacting to failures and service disruptions is a key ...

Whether it is at the core, edge, or access platform, network routers have one basic function: packet forwarding. Edge routers, however, have the need to perform additional processing and deeper ...

Welcome to the first of a two-part series. In this first part, I'll talk about the physical infrastructure that Microsoft uses to ensure availability and provide a high degree of uptime for the Azure ...

Sets of database rows are brought into memory as part of SQL select or stored procedure operations. Some (but not all) of the NoSQL databases are designed to exist in memory for speed and can be ...