Disk Defragmentation of clustered SQL DB disks
HiWe are converting Physical SQL servers in cluster to VM, the fragmentation is showing as 22% on 2 X 1TB DB located disks which are on SAN. Is it recommended to defragment the disks during working...
View ArticleWSFC running SQL FCI in primary with SQL standalone in DR. Vote and Disk...
Hi Team, We have 3 node WSFC . 2 nodes are running with shared storage in Primary DC and 1 node 3 (no shared storage with Primary) is in DR . We will have AG configured between Primary and DR SQL...
View ArticleQuestions on Worker Threads.
Greetings. For several months now we've been getting alerts re high Worker Threads in our server that houses an Availability Group. This is a large data warehouse environment (I know, not ideal for an...
View ArticleMultisite clustering and AGs
Hi all, I have been researching WIN 2016 features and new AGs enhancements lately. Need your guidance on the following requirement and proposed hypothesis for my virtual lab purpose. I'd like to...
View ArticleCross-Database transactions in AlwaysOn AvailabilityGroups
We have a set of databases that are used together frequently from one solution (built using Entity Framework). We have views and stored procs that connect from one database to other databases in the...
View ArticleOnly One Role in a SQL Server 2014 AG failed -Windows Cluster 2012 Triggered...
Hi All,I have three node windows 2012 cluster configured with node majority. I have two roles in the failover cluster.Only one role triggered a failover but other node remained as primary replica.Just...
View ArticleAdding third node
HI All,Scenario : I have two nodes with SQL Server installed and SQL Always on setup done and its all perfect running in VMware EXI VM servers.Problem - The problem is i have shared drive between two...
View Articlesql server 2016 alwayson availability groups DR Site
Hello Current I am planning to installation sql server as below Site DC : 1 SQL server primary and 1 witness Site DR : 1 SQL Server Secondary All use Active directory I have a...
View ArticleService account on Cluster
Hi,I am trying to change service account on a SQL cluster (2008R2), want to set different service account on each node for a testing purpose. It is Active Passive setup. When I change service account...
View ArticleMultiple Basic Availability Group (BAG) SQL 2016
Hello,I have a quick question regarding to BAG in SQL server 2016 standard edition. Can i create multiple BAG with multiple databases and fail-over using multiple listener? Or is there any other way to...
View ArticleSQL 2008 R2 mirroring between STD and ENT versions?
Hi, is it possible to setup mirroring between two SQL 2008 R2 servers in that one sql server is on Standard version and the mirror server is on SQL 2008 R2 Enterprise version. The reason is that, we...
View ArticleService Broker up but not processing after AG failover
We have a 2012 server with SQL Server 2012 sp2 set up with and availability group. If we fail the AG to the B node, service broker comes up, but does not process. All messages sit in the queue.We have...
View ArticleSQL2016 Configuring Always ON to use Round Robin Mechanism for Read queries
I have downloaded evaluation version of SQL2016 to test the Always ON especially the round Robin Mechanism.Configured Always ON with Two nodes and updated the Always ON to route the read queries to...
View ArticleNo disks were found on which to perform cluster validation
I'm helping a customer that is having issues setting up a Windows 2012 R2 cluster\SQL Server 2014 FCI. The cluster validation tests indicate that No disks were found on which to perform cluster...
View ArticleSQL Server 2 node cluster Firewall question.
Hi,We have a two node sql cluster and a web application server.i have a question regarding what ports needs to be opened between application server and SQL cluster.Its a named SQL instance that runs on...
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New-SqlAvailabilityGroupListener Infinite Loop
I am trying to create a SQL availability group listener using the SQLPS module however I am having a very strange issue. When the command it was just hanging and doing nothing unless I press ctrl+c at...
View ArticleHistory of Rollback transaction
Hi All,I had a transaction which was rolled back before 24 hours and need to find out history of what statements where executed during this time and who caused this rollback.Regards,kccrga-kccrga...
View ArticleFail over clustering with always
HI ALL,We are planning to configure the fail-over clustering with always-on mechanization between Primary DC to Secondary DC for SharePoint applications 1. Primary SQL fail-over cluster 10.10.10.20...
View ArticleSql clustering on two HyperV hosts
Hi, I am configuring a high availability for a customer. The plan is to have two HyperV hosts installed on two different locations. The servers that should be running on this setum ar Exchange,SQL, DC...
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SQL server backup Maintenance Plan is not running
Dear SQL expert,we are using SQL server 2012 for our NAVISION DB. we have created few maintenance plan to backup our SQL DB. However, recently the plan is refuse to run. I tried to execute it manually,...
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