Pinakin Patel

Pinakin Patel is a SQL Server Admin / AWS Solutions Architect with experience in SQL Server 2000 to 2016. His expertise is implementing SQL Server high availability and disaster recovery solutions including backup and recovery plans, database mirroring, log shipping, replication, clustering and SQL Server Always On Availability Groups across multiple availability zones. Over his career he has been involved with installing, upgrading and configuring SQL Server, designing security plans, performance tuning and monitoring and SQL Server maintenance. As an AWS Solutions Architect he has configured an AWS cloud environment, launched EC2 instances in AWS and SQL Server in AWS. Further he has worked with SQL Server Azure Virtual Machines. Pinakin can be reached at pinakinaws108@gmail.com.

Articles: 10

SQL Server on Linux

Migrate SQL Server Database from Windows to SQL Server on Linux in Cloud – Part 3

In this tip we look at how to migrate a database from SQL Server on Windows to SQL Server on Linux.

Pinakin Patel
June 7, 2018

Amazon AWS

Install SQL Server 2017 on Red Hat Linux on AWS – Part 2

In this second part of this tip we look at how to install SQL Server 2017 on Red Hat Linux on AWS.

Pinakin Patel
May 19, 2026

Amazon AWS

Setting up SQL Server on Red Hat Linux in AWS – Part 1

In this tip we look at the preliminary steps you need to peform to build an instance in AWS to run SQL Server on Red Hat Linux.

Pinakin Patel
April 30, 2018

Amazon AWS

Implement SQL Server High Availability and Disaster Recovery on Amazon EC2 – Part 4

Read this tip to learn how to setup Always On Availability Groups for SQL Server in AWS.

Pinakin Patel
December 26, 2017

Amazon AWS

Implement SQL Server High Availability and Disaster Recovery on Amazon EC2 – Part 3

In this tip we look at how to install SQL Server 2016 in AWS.

Pinakin Patel
December 21, 2017

Amazon AWS

Implement SQL Server High Availability and Disaster Recovery on Amazon EC2 – Part 2

In this tip we will walk thru validation of the Windows Server Failover Cluster configuration steps and build the Windows Server Failover Cluster in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud.

Pinakin Patel
December 5, 2017

Amazon AWS

Implement SQL Server High Availability and Disaster Recovery on Amazon EC2 – Part 1

Learn how to implement SQL Server high availability and disaster recovery on Amazon EC2 including the hardware and software requirements, planning the cluster, joining the domain, IP address configuration and more.