Using Synonyms on AG's.
Greetings. I currently have a 2 node Availability Group that houses some big warehouse type of DB’s. It’s not uncommon to see DB1 populate DB2:Use db1GoInsert into db2.dbo.table_1 values...
View ArticleMonitoring AlwaysOn HA setup with HyperV
Hi friends.I have configured AlwaysOn HA setup with HyperV environments without shared disk and using quorum voting in file share witness.1. I want to monitor AlwaysOn HA setup and AO Group database on...
View ArticleSQL Server Service in Cluster remains in Restart Pending OR Failed - Help...
Hi All,We have a 2 Node SQL Server 2012 Cluster - on Active, Passive mode running on Windows Server 2008 R2 Operating Systems.The cluster was all working fine for many weeks and suddenly after certain...
View ArticleAlywasOn Availability Groups NIC cards
Hello,Do i need to use two nic cards for my production of sql server alwayson availability group?ThanksQanna
View ArticleFile Share Witness Quorum
Hi Guys,is it ok if i will not configure a file share witness quorum for may availability group setup?Thanks,Qanna
View ArticleLSalert job status is failed.
Recently we have configured SQL server , earlier name of SQL server was for EX : "XXX" and after migration of database we renamed it after older one to "YYY". Now the problem is that we have configured...
View ArticleSQL Server Cluster Resource Fails to come Online and Pending Online State
Hi We have SQL cluster installed on top of windows cluster on VM environment. Node1 and Node2 under Windows Failover Cluster. SQL instance is currently on node2 the instance is up and running, but SQL...
View ArticleLog shipping across two different forests!
Hello,How can I setup log shipping for a database between two servers on two different forests?note: there is VPN between the two networks.no trusts established between the two forests.
View ArticleSQL Datbase and Log Backups for ALwaysOn Databases
For an AlwaysOn Database, when setting up database backups and log backups, should I setup jobs to run on every node where the database may run.Thank you,
View ArticleTransaction Log backup requirement/ workaround for adding DB to Availability...
Greetings. Like everyone else, I've always taken a Full backup, followed by a Transaction Log backup, and restored them in noRecovery mode to the Secondary server, to add a DB to an Availability...
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disk not shown by sql cluster
hi i am trying to cluster two sql node server on hyper-v both virtual and my situation is below : two hyper-v host connected to vnxe storage two hyper-v are mapped to 3 LUN ( SQL Data , SQL logs ,...
View ArticleAlwaysOn Availablity Groups and Transactional Replication Licensing Question.
“The secondary server used for failover support does not need to be separately licensed for SQL Server aslong as it is truly passive. If it is serving data, such as reports to clients running active...
View ArticleAlwaysOn Listener - Force connection to Secondry for AD group
Hi all, I have a two node HA Always on group using a Listener. I would like to force a certain AD group to always be forced to the secondry node as they would only ever need to run select statements....
View ArticleSQL Server 2008 R2 Cluster (2 Instances) update to SQL 2012
SQL 2008 R2 Enterprise Ed Cluster (2 Instances Active / Active)Hi everybody.I need useful information on :How to move SQL Server 2008 R2 ENTERPRISE Ed. 2 Instances cluster to SQL Server 2012 STANDARD...
View ArticleMaintenance task to copy bak file to secondary drive after backup is complete?
I need to copy a just-created bak file to another drive after the backup task has completed. I don't see anything in the job toolbox which helps with file system operations like this. But still it must...
View Article.net framework
Why we need .net framework while installing sql server and how does it help? And also what are the task it performs?
View Articlebackup SQL Server Instance including COMPLETE configuration
There is a lot of documention concerning data(base) backups, but I could not find information about how to backup a complete SQL Server instance (data + configuration) or the SQL server configuration...
View ArticleBest practice on OS memory reservation for a two node cluster having three...
Hi All,We are running with a 2 node windows cluster having three SQL instances on it. OS: Windows server 2008R2 SP1SQL : SQL server 2008R2 (10.50.6529)Currently both nodes have 256 GB or memory and we...
View ArticleDR site for SQL server 2008 R2
Hello,We have 1 application server installed on Windows Server 2008 R2 and SQL 2008 R2 installed on Windows Server 2008 R2we need to implement a DR for the SQL server, what is the best way to do that?
View ArticleAdding users to Availability Group
I am in the process of rolling out a pair of SQL 2014 servers. I have setup an Availability Group, Listener and databases. It's my understanding that I will be giving the listener name to our...
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