Is there a way to connect a AG replica when the replica is in "RESOLVING" state?
Hi,I setup a AG ,and set the secondary replica readable, the primary replca is a clustered instance.When i failover the primary replica to the passive node, the connection to the secondary replica is...
View ArticleIs SQL 2012 supported with Hyper-V Replica
Is it supported to have SQL Server 2012 running within a VM that is replicated using Hyper-V Replica?I am aware that if there is a failure at the primary site I would lose any changes that had not...
View ArticleRestore a copy to same instance with move secondary file failure 1834
Hi,I am trying to RESTORE a copy of a database to the same instance with a different name. I've done this before, but this database has a .ndf file. A RESTORE FILELISTONLY produces the following...
View ArticleSQL Server Replication between domain and work -group and using different sql...
HI All,How to set-up SQL Server Replication between domain and work -group and using different sql server versionDistributor /Subscriber version - Sql Server 2005 Standard edition on...
View ArticleHow to force a DNS record update for an Availability Group Listener?
Hello all! We are rolling out more and more multi-subnet clusters here at my company and we're running into a pain point with RegisterAllProvidersIP. By default, when we create the AGL,...
View ArticleSQL 2008 R2 Data Recovery
I have the mdf as of the server failure but cannot get the database to "attach".
View ArticleNon clustered index taking forever to be created
i am creating non clustered index on on of the date columns that has 98393892 row.it has been running since 17 hours now but not yet completed,here is the script i am using to create oneCREATE...
View ArticleFailOver Clustering
Experts,We have a fail over clustering High Availability in place. All our instances are 2008R2. We want to install 2012 on all of the nodes in the cluster and create another fail over cluster group on...
View ArticleAlwaysOn and Error 1265
I am attempting to set up an always on cluster on VMware for testing. setting up everything through the Failover cluster is fine, the trouble comes when I try to set up the AlwaysOn availability group....
View ArticleLog backups failing randomly for 10 databases
Dear Team,In our environment we are facing log backup job(ls_backup) failing issue of logshipping configured server. We have configured log shipping for 10databases. We identified that the log backups...
View ArticleIn Log-shipping what is load delay period on secondary server - Skipping log...
During logshipping, job on secondary server is ran successfully BUT give this information "Skipping log backup file since load delay period has not expired ...."What is this "Load delay period" ? Can...
View ArticleRestore does not see all of the drives
We recently installed SQL Server 2005. The server has 3 drives. When I try to restore a database I can only access the C: drive. How do I make the D: and E: drives visible in the "locate folder"...
View ArticleSQL Server Management Studio(SSMS) filestream error
I was trying to revert the snapshot database to my database. However, when I execute the code, I met this errorThe database cannot be reverted because FILESTREAM BLOBs are present.In the properties,...
View ArticleBackup verification raises error when prefer secondary is enabled.
Anyone know how I can prevent receiving an error when my backup is verified? I have a SQL 2012 availability group each with it's own backup maintenance plan with the verify option enabled. However,...
View ArticleMonitoring scripts for AlwaysOn Availability Group
Does anyone have any any monitoring scripts for AlwaysOn AG using Transact SQL or stored procedures? I'm not a strong coder and don't know Powershell at all. But if there are some Powershell scripts...
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HelloAs part of our efforts to keep our communities informed about the most relevant content that address the top questions that we are getting in out forums and other support channels we want to...
View ArticleThere was an error to lookup cluster groups.
Hi,I'm quite new to the SQL Server. I have installed SQL 2012 cluster installation and I received an error when I was installing second node of the cluster. First node installed without any issue....
View ArticleSQL Server Software ISO, How to find out what is the Edition and Version of...
Hi All-Before starting installation, I would like to find out What EDITION and VERSION is the SQL Server Software ISO.Please note this is not to find out what version is the installed sql server but...
View ArticleFailing over database to Mirrored Server
we have a classic ASP application that some how does not have a capability to automatically fail over to Mirrored database,i need to manually failover database to mirrored server and then manually...
View ArticleChange service accounts from Domain Admin to local Admin SQL Cluster
HiWe have some SQL Clusters in our enviroment, the previous administrator made user accounts for the sql cluster services, but he put these accounts in the Domain admins group, the security staff ask...
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