Architecture & Setup
SQL Server architecture and setup decisions shape performance, reliability, and maintainability long before problems become visible. This section covers practical design choices, deployment models, high availability, and infrastructure considerations from real production environments.
Why Workload Placement Matters More Than the Platform Label for SQL Server
When companies start discussing SQL Server workload placement, the conversation often begins with the platform. Should the workload move to Azure? Would Azure SQL Managed Instance be a better fit? Should the database stay on-premises for another few years, or would that simply postpone an inevitable migration? Those are reasonable ...
SQL Server Vector Search: What to Evaluate Before Production
SQL Server 2025 adds native support for vector data and vector search. Applications can keep embeddings alongside relational data and use the SQL Database Engine to find semantically similar information. A small proof of concept is easy enough to build: store an embedding, calculate the distance between vectors and return ...