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Google Compute Engine

New White Paper: How to Build a SQL Server Disaster Recovery Plan with Google Compute Engine

Tara Kizer
Google Compute Engine, High Availability, Log Shipping, Processes and Practices
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You’re a systems administrator or database administrator who wants to protect your production SQL Server. However, you don’t have a separate data center or another colo site. Learn about what we call Log Shipping 2.0 You’re looking for instructions on: How to copy your SQL Server databases to Google Cloud Storage How to spin up…
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Announcing Google Managed PostgreSQL (and why SQL Server DBAs should care)

Brent Ozar
Google Compute Engine
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You’ll notice that we’ve been blogging and writing a lot about Google here this week. I gotta tell you – it’s totally bizarre sitting in a Google Cloud Next conference session in San Francisco, watching presenters using Macs, coding with Visual Studio Code, demonstrating SQL Server. I even talked to a SQL Server DBA attendee yesterday…
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New White Paper: SQL Server Performance Tuning in Google Compute Engine

Erik Darling
Google Compute Engine, Hardware, Wait Stats
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You’re a database administrator, Windows admin, or developer. You might even be a marmot. You’re building your first SQL Servers in Google Compute Engine, and you’re stuck at the create instance screen. How many CPUs should you use? How much memory? How are you supposed to configure storage? Will it be fast enough, and what…
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New White Paper: How to Build an Always On Availability Group in Google Compute Engine

Brent Ozar
Always On Availability Groups, Google Compute Engine, SQL Server
21 Comments
You’re a database administrator, Windows admin, or developer. You want to build a Microsoft SQL Server environment that’s highly available, and you’ve chosen to use Always On Availability Groups. Our newest white paper – download In this white paper we built with Google, we’ll show you: How to build your first Availability Group in Google…
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Always On Availability Groups Now Supported in Google Compute Engine

Brent Ozar
Always On Availability Groups, Cloud Computing, Google Compute Engine
6 Comments
I’m excited to finally be able to talk about something Erik, Tara, and I have been working on for the last few months. Here in the SQL Server community, when I mention cloud, you probably think of two companies: Microsoft and Amazon. We’ve been blogging about SQL in AWS for years, and Microsoft throws a…
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