Adding an additional listener
Hi,We have a server A and a server B setup with SQL2014 High Availability - working fine.I need to add an additional listener to our new DR site (SQLNODECOLO). What is the best way to do this without...
View ArticleSQL Server Virtualization - Vmotion
Hello,We are looking into a solution of HA for our sql servers. Solutions that we got are AlwaysOn FCI with SQL Server Standard with shared storage and AlwaysOn Availability Groups. We just received...
View ArticleDestroying a cluster
I'm going to need to move a Windows 2008 R2 Cluster to a new domain. The Cluster has 3 SQL Server 2008 R2 FCIs. I understand that I'll need to tear down and rebuild the cluster. The cluster will have...
View ArticleDatabase restore canceled with error 824 or error 9004 on V2008R2 - no error...
I have difficulties restoring a database on a SQL Server Version 2008 R2. Sometimes the restore cancels with an error 9004 and sometimes with an error 824. The Backup was made on the same Server and...
View ArticleSQL server suspect/Off line mode and Data lost
Suddenly I saw my SQL Server is in suspect/OFF Line mode. That's why I am not able to do any any operation in my db. For this reason I restarted my Server. But when I get ready I found that some of my...
View ArticleSQL Availability Groups multiple SQL instances
Hey,I wanted to know if you can configure 2 SQL Server Instances to participate in 2 different Availability Groups.For example we have 2 SQL Servers and on SQL Server 1 we have 2 SQL Server Instances....
View ArticleWhat happens to open transactions when failling over (Always on)
In the case of a manual failover, what happens to open transactions. Are they killed (rolled back), completed, a little bit of both?Does the status of the query has any impact (are running queries...
View ArticleGeocluster + Always on ??
Actually we have a SQL Server Geocluster. Datacenter1: SQL Server Node 1Datacenter2: SQL Server Node 2Remote Office1: Witness (file Share)Remotes Offices: N/AData are replicated beetwen Datacenter1...
View ArticleSQL 2008 Express Vs SQL 2008 Enterprise
Hi Guys,Can you tell me if there is a core difference between these 2 versions with regard to recovering after a hardware failure (i.e. ungraceful/hard shutdown)The reason I ask is I have an...
View ArticleEvent ID 1135 Failover clustering
My SQL server auto fail overs to node 2 at particular time every day , the following is event log
View ArticleBackup file size after implementing AOAG
Microsoft SQL Server 2014 - 12.0.4100.1 (X64) Apr 20 2015 17:29:27 Copyright (c) Microsoft CorporationEnterprise Edition (64-bit) on Windows NT 6.3 <X64> (Build 9600: ) (Hypervisor) We recently...
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...
View Article3 node AG+ FCi quorum model , node and disk majority quorum with
We are proposing a following setup for a ERP backend Server on SQL server 2014 3 Node WSFC cluster on windows 2012 R2 Standard ( virtual hosts on VMWare) , all 3 nodes residing in same data...
View ArticleConnect to SQL Cluster by IP address
HiI have inherited two separate SQL clusters. One cluster instance is called DESQLSC1\INST1 and the other is MKSQLSC1\INST1.On MKSQLSC1\INST1 I can connect by using MKSQLSC1\INST1, MKSQLSC1 and the IP...
View ArticleAvailability Group Quorum - majority of nodes down but Cluster still up?
Hi,I'm just starting to work with AlwaysOn Availability and WSFC.I have in my environment (in Azure) a DC, WSFC and to SQL instances, so I have 3 nodes in my Failover Cluster:WSFC SQL1SQL2If I...
View ArticleLog Shipping : MSG 927 Database cannot be opened It is Restoring state --...
we have setup a log shipping For one database. we configured secondary server as STANDBY/READONLY mode.When we are trying to run a select query in secondary server is giving me error message as MSG...
View ArticleReverse AlwaysOn Failover Flow of Data.
We are using Always on Groups for DR and Cluster as HA.The cluster is spread across 3 global regions (geo cluster with remote witness) and 3 data centers with 4 physical nodes across each DC.We have 2...
View ArticleHas anybody implemented SS2012 Always On in a production environment for DR?
Am helping a client upgrade his servers (currently SS 2005 with Windows 2003 cluster). Talked to Dell sales rep this afternoon and he had not heard of anyone implementing Always On for DR. He said all...
View ArticleAlways on AGListener
Hi, i am planning to set up AlwaysOn with 20 databases, Automatic failover(synchronous) in my current environment, SQL server 2014,windows server std 2012 configure WSFC on 2 nodes , Node1 Node2 (...
View ArticleHow to do a Full Disaster Recovery
If you are doing a disaster recovery of an entire SQL 2005 cluster, can you just install SQL server and restore the system database to get the configuration?
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