Shared storage with mutiple SQL Instance - DB and Log placement recommendations
Hi Team, I know we can have DB and Logs on the same LUN for SQL Instance on failover cluster. But it is not recommended as per my understanding. I am looking for any Microsoft link that explains the...
View ArticleSQL 2014 FCI and Availability Groups guide
Hi Team, We have a AG Guide with SQL 2012 . Do we have anything similar available for SQL 2014. Does the same guide appropriate and applies for SQL 2014 as...
View ArticleAlways On
Hi AllLet me explain the our environment and will tell you the issue what we are facingWe have always configured with FCI+Stand AloneFCI - has three nodes and one shared drive for Quorum and Stand...
View ArticleSQL FCI with AG - swapping roles between DC
Hi Team, We have WSFC cluster (2 nodes running SQL FCI) in primary DC and 1 standalone node in DR (running SQL standalone with its own storage). Its a multisite setup. SQL AG is running SQL FCI as...
View ArticleLog shipping configuration fail with connection timeout
I am setting the log shipping on the 2 servers (SQL 2008R2) where both server at located at different remote area.Using wizard, when I select the 2n server and click the connection button to connect to...
View ArticleSetting Alwayson In Developer Edition
Hi Experts,What I understand is that the developer edition has all the features of Enterprise edition. I that case I would presume that Alwayson groups can be setup for a developer edition. Can someone...
View ArticleSQL AlwaysON Turkish Collation Problem During Setup
I have 2 servers with SQL 2014 SP2 and windows 2012 R2 installed on them. When i tried to create availability group it failed with "the primary replica is not active".. But when i tried to create...
View ArticleHow can I quickly find out of my SQL servers are part of a Failover Cluster...
Hi - I am not a DBA but it has kind of been dropped on me - I have inherited 12 SharePoint farms with 2 x SQL 2012 servers in each and I know they are using Availability groups but is there any way I...
View ArticleUnable to apply KB3194720 on SQL Server 2014
Trying to install KB3194720 on our SQL Server 2014 server. When we try to apply the KB the check box for the instance is grayed out. When we click on the database service we see the following:The...
View Article3 nodes- Primary, secondary, and the FSW. All roles on Primary, including...
We are seeing a problem in prod, but not in any lower environments. Here's what happened- we put the cluster(normally in synchronous repl) into async, Making sure all roles, plus the cluster, are on...
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Azure Replica Virtual Network does not populate with SQL 2014 SP2
I am trying to add an Azure Replica to my SQL Server 2014 Enterprise AlwaysOn Availability Group and the Virtual Network is not being populated. This is a known issue for the RTM version of SQL 2014...
View ArticleEMC Networker backup restore from tape for Sql Server 2012
Hi ,Can we restore sql server 2012 backup from emc networker without using emc networker client . For example in oracle we can use RMAN utility to restore backup from tape instead of using the emc...
View ArticleDrop DB on AG Secondary when re-adding a DB to AG?
I suspect the answer is "no" so just looking for absolute confirmation I'm not missing something...In my current client, its common for us to have to roll back a database to as far back as 6 months ago...
View ArticleLog shipping Monitor server
i have a question in regards to Log shipping Monitor server licensing, do we have to license Log shipping Monitor server even though no users will query the server, if we have to can we use Log...
View ArticleSQL Server services restarting with error SQL Server component...
Hi Experts,One of our cluster box is on Windows Sever 2008 R2 Enterprise where we have Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (SP2) services on one node and SQL Server 2012 Analysis server on the second node. Its...
View ArticleShould Activity Group Databases Not Automatically Start Re-synchronizing...
When I failover during testing (SQL Server 2016) I am noticing that my AG databases stop synchronizing across all servers. Do I manually have to go tell them each one of them to start re-synchronizing...
View ArticleStretched/Multisubnet Cluster Quorum
Hi All,We are trying to setup a Multisubnet cluster between two different location and have a question in Quorum setup. Keep in mind that we have no SAN or any other replication between the two sites....
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Read off the secondary readable replica fails in a alwayson cluster
Hi there,I use System Centre Operations Manager 2012 R2 and I use an always-on SQL cluster for the backend.Issue I have here is even though the secondary replica is configured as readable but every...
View ArticleAlways-On-Sudden Automatic Failover
Hi,We are currently using SQL 2014 Always-On . We have cluster setup with three nodes , Node 1 and Node 2 have setup with Automatic failover , Node 3 is setup with manual failover. Node 1 is the...
View ArticleLOG Backup on secondary replica AOAG
Hi,We have an AOAG setup with one primary and one secondary.It has automatic failover and synchronized State.As per MSDN,we can configure backups on secondary to reduce the load on primary.We have...
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