Automatic Trace Getting Created
Hello, I am looking at one of the SQL Server which I inherited from my predecessor at work place and I can see a Trace file is getting created on the Log folder. There has been manual script in place...
View Articleavailability group stragglers
I am seeing the message "I am a straggler" in the failover cluster logs for a node hosting an availability group, annecdotally I suspect this is because the replicas on this node have got behind,...
View ArticleSQL Server Local High Availability using Failover Cluster and Disaster...
Hi,We have a requirement to build SQL environment which will give us local high availability and disaster recovery to second site. We have two sites- Site A & Site B. We are planning to have two...
View ArticleHave to remove DB and join DB back to AG to fix out of sync issue
Hello Masters,I found several times, I cannot fix the AlwaysON issue then I have to delete database and join it back to fix.This is usually how I fix alwayson issue:1. Firstly, try resume the...
View ArticleSQL Enterprise vs SQL Standard Server 2016 edition – what to choose?
I’m planning on building an SQL cluster for our company: 2 hosts, active-active clustering. SQL Enterprise Edition seems too expensive. However, I’ve heard that SQL Server 2016 Standard edition should...
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Multi-Site Cluster
Hi ExpertsWe are in process to build multi-site cluster (two sites). Every site will have two SQL Servers 2012 with Windows Server 2012 R2. I tried to find a way to create Multi-Site Cluster and came...
View ArticleAlwaysOn cluster down due to the clusdb corrupt/missing
Hello all,I have a 3-nodes AlwaysOn cluster (Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 + SQL Server 2012 RTM), Node Majority quorum, the quorum vote for each node is 1. Today the AlwaysOn AG was suddenly down due to...
View ArticleMultiple instances of SQL server on a cluster
Is it possible to have more than one instance of SQL Server on a failover Active/Passive cluster?What are the concerns/ramifications if that indeed is possible?
View ArticleSQL cluster + AlwaysOn maintenance
Hi all, I have SQL cluster from two nodes on SQL 2012 and WIndows Server 2012 R2. Recently I have configured additional SQL instance on separate server and I have added AlwaysOn AG between clustered...
View ArticleHow to restore SQL database to existing development server?
Dear SQL Server Expert,We are using SQL Server 2012 for both production and development server. Currently, i have plan to transfer the full backup of SQL server database to the development server and...
View ArticleSlow performance in SQL Server 2012 when we run a command on a spatial data...
Hi friends,the following is the culprit for poor performance. cpu spike always high(avg-97-100)-cpu busy count-74687537SELECT top(1)@location=isnull(location,'No Location Found.'),@lat=Lat,@lon=lon...
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Restoring of database taking longer than normal time
HI Folks,This morning i took backup of one of the databases from Primary server and restored on secondary server on a SQL AlwaysOn AG setup , the database was restored has no recovery on secondary...
View ArticleRestore clustered server into single DR server
Looking for help with a particular scenario (not looking to introduce a different scenario or alternate approach).I'm working to test out a recovery scenario involving a SQL 2008 R2 2 node cluster. I...
View ArticleMSSQL Rollback at Database level
Hi Testing team is performing some activities on MSSQL - 2008 R2 database ..and after completion of the test, again team wants to restore the original database ( in the same state as before...
View ArticleServer Rename - how it affects linked servers on remote computers
All my SQL servers are 2008 R2. I have production SQL server "SQLPROD1". I built a server "SQLDR1" to act as cold standby in case SQLPROD1 becomes unavailable. In that event, I will rename SQLDR1 to...
View ArticleReboot always on with synchronous commit
Trying to find doc or figure out if there is a recommended order of operation for rebooting secondary instance in always on when in synchronous commit mode.Since the primary replica waits on the...
View ArticleMaintenance plan will not do a transaction log backup
The issue is that I cannot get a Maintenance Plan to do a transaction log backup on one of the SQL instances, but it works fine on the other two. If I execute the SQL Agent job, or the Maintenance...
View ArticleSQL 2012 SE Logshipping Restore Job stuck (in standby mode)
Hello,I am using SQL 2012 SE. I have setup logshipping from Server A to Server B. The database on secondary server will be in Stand bY mode as I need some processing from 12:05AM to 7:00AM every night....
View ArticleSQL Server cluster installation
Hello Experts,I am learning SQL Server failover cluster installation. My question is regarding the options to install failover cluster instances on the Windows Failover Cluster. I have seen\read there...
View ArticleSQL Server Always on HA and DR Solution
We are going to Implement DR Site for SQL Server 2008 R2.We have the following configuration on Primary Site.1. SQL Server 2008 R2 ( Stand Alone )2. SQL Server 2008 R2 (2 Node Failover Cluster) DR...
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