AlwaysOn
I have configured AlwaysOn setup and backup preference is prefered secondary. Secondary is readable. What are the backup strategies i should prefer as a best practices and how to take backup on...
View ArticleCan anyone tell me how to fix when log shipping restore jobs was failing...
Hi All,I'm getting log shipping restore job failed alerts intermittently. when i cross checked in sql server job history it got succeeded in next run.I have tried to figure out the issue but no luck....
View ArticleAG failover issue
Hi SQL Experts, We have SQL 2014 Enterprise Edition instance in our environment and Alwayson availability groups configured. Assume Server-1 and Server-2 are the two AG replicas. In our environment...
View ArticleApplication gets timeout
Hi,I have a cluster setup like below.Instance A in A1 and A2(failover cluster) + A3 in one location. Instance A is AG with A3.Similar 3 servers in location B.When link between two locations goes...
View ArticleSPN
Hi Team, Can we use the same account for SPN registration that we use for running SQL Server database engine for instance?For Eg. while installing SQL instance, i give domainname\<AbcSrv> to run...
View ArticleUnable to ping Windows Cluster's IP and unable to connect listener IP
I'm using windows server 2012R2, recently I created a WSFC with 2nodes,Both nodes are in same subnet and assigned a static IP for the cluster. But I can ping the cluster's IP only from the current...
View ArticlePros and Cons High Availability
I have 5 database(Azure VM) and will be used as high volume transaction databases. I want to do reporting on these databases at peek times. Also to note that we may plan for Dataware house in future. I...
View ArticleAvailability Groups for DR with WSFC - Replication compress and encryteds the...
Hi Team, We have WSFC with 3 nodes (2 in Primary Datacenter) with HA and 1 node in DR site.We have SQL multiple instances running as Failover in Primary nodes and standalone SQL on node in DR.We want...
View Article100% Uptime
SQL 2014We use log shipping as part of our DR system. Occassionally we test our DR plan and fail over to the LS server. We also apply Windows Updates regulary, as well as SQL Service Packs. Now we're...
View ArticleWhat happens when the primary server is shut down in an always on configuration
Hi!I have built a 2 node SQL 2012 Always on cluster. When I fail it over it all seems to work fine. So we did a DR test by powering down the primary server and now the databases on the secondary server...
View ArticleSql 2012 databae mirror setup
Trying to setup Database mirroring between two servers have issues, getting the error message below:An error occurred while starting mirroring. ------------------------------ ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:...
View ArticleFailover Clustering Edition SQL Server 2016
Hello,In the past we used SQL Server 2008 on a Windows Failover Cluster with shared storage on a SAN. These days that kind of limits things with virtualization and we'd like to not be tied to the SAN....
View ArticleHow to configure Dedicated NIC for Always On AG traffic in FCI for HA + AG...
Hi Team, I am planning to configure a dedicated NIC for SQL 2014 Always on AG TrafficOur Primary Server is a failover cluster instance and secondary is a standalone SQL Instance (SQL FCI for...
View ArticleMoving the SQL server temp db in a clustered environment
We need to move the SQL server temp database of our SQL server cluster to new partition on the same disk. I've found some instructions that discuss moving the temp database, however I'm trying to find...
View ArticleAttaching db with missing transaction log, and remapping location to new drive
I have a detached database that I am trying to attach and it will not allow me to do so. It is telling me the location for the log file does not exist. Which is true. I need to attach the db, point it...
View ArticleTransactions log - transactions uncommited, commited, checkpoint
Hi all,I come from an Oracle background and I know i shouldn't make a side by side comparison between the two products but I would like to know the difference between them though and i hope gurus here...
View ArticleUnable to manual failover the Availibility group from a node to another
Hello Guys,I have an SQL Server 2012 DAG running on top of a Windows Server 2012 Failover Cluster.Today (suddenly), i was faced to an irregular issue when i want to manual failover the DAG from a node...
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Configure Static Port for SQL Failover instance
Hi Team,We have SQL Failover cluster and that has multiple named instance running. I want to configure static port for each named instance. If i go to SQL configuration manager, Select the protocols...
View ArticleSQL Cluster unexpected failover
So we had one of our SQL clusters unexpectedly failover recently. Second time in a few months. Two node active/passive SQL 2012 cluster running on Windows 2012 Standard.Here's what we could cull from...
View ArticleHow to backup and clear logs (truncate logs) on an AAG Database
I have read Microsofts steps but if a Copy-Only Backup is only supported in an Always On Group then how will the logs be cleared? I have a primary and secondary server in an AAG configuration, I've...
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