Production Readiness
Production readiness asks whether a SQL Server feature, architecture, or implementation is suitable for reliable day-to-day operation. These articles examine technical limitations, operational requirements, risk, maintainability, and supportability.
SQL Server High Availability: Define the Failure Before Choosing the Technology
A SQL Server high availability discussion can turn into a technology discussion very quickly. Someone suggests an Availability Group, someone else prefers a Failover Cluster Instance, and before long the conversation is about synchronous replicas, shared storage, listeners and automatic failover. Those may all become relevant. But at that point, ...
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 ...