Data Collection jobs and AlwaysOn
Hello all,My company finally grew a brain this weekend and let me set up the AlwaysOn cluster I've been telling them we needed for months. It's in Azure (which wasn't easy), but it works flawlessly. I...
View ArticleBest Solution for a Rollback
So we have a 2008 R2 SP2 Enterprise Edition db set up as a Mirrored/LogShipped pair. The mirror is syncronous and log shipping has a 2 hour delay to a remote site. The size of the db is 3 TB+We plan to...
View ArticleTransaction log size grow - Replication hold up
we have a production system SQL2008R2 regular with single snapshot replication to same server.The transaction log will grow out of control from time to time (1 month, 4 months after fix). Transaction...
View Articleeven after fixing orphand user. loging is failing ?
after migration orphaned users were fixed but when failover happens secondary to primary login failed then it is found as orphaned user .it is fixed and failover happen to primary again it is found as...
View ArticleHow to identify primary server from secondary in logshipping
Hi ,I would like to know primary db from secondary db those are located on different servers.Ex : In Server ABC database name is test = primary In Server DEF database name is...
View Article2012 Always on
We have a Live prd VM on Win2012 with SQL 2012, which hosts the primary DB. The mirror DB is on an exact same VM but at our secondary site. As this is currently live can we convert this into a Always...
View ArticleSQL 2008 R2 cluster installation failure - Failed to find shared disks
Hi,The validation tests in the SQL 2008R2 cluster installation (running Windows 2008 R2) fails with the following error. The cluster has one root mount point with multiple mount points :"The cluster on...
View ArticleAlwaysOn connection drop
Hi allA question about AlwaysOn (2 Nodes)What would happen if I begin a transaction on Node1 and there is a drop in communication between Node1 and Node2. Will my database on Node1 still be available?...
View ArticleUpgrade using Db mirroring
Hi Everyone, I came to know that using SQL Server database mirroring, we can perform the upgrades with minimal downtime. How that is possible? Can anyone elaborate ? I have done some homework reading...
View ArticleOracle RAC Vs SQL Server Cluster
I am confuse about SQL server cluster services. What is his main purpose + compare with Oracle (if possible) ?In oracle cluster services typically use for load balancing and two nodes always use for...
View Articlehigh Write latencies in datafiles for some large databases.
Needed your guidance to fix one of the performance issue where the writes are slow.Some of the information: SQL Server 2008R2. OLTP environment. 32GB RAM. 16 Disks Raid 10. Write latency on some of the...
View ArticleHigh Availability design/upgrade
Hi,We’re looking to upgrade our Production SQL Cluster infrastructure. Currently we are running on old hardware and software….We currently have two nodes in the cluster. 2-Proliant DL380 Gen5 servers...
View ArticleAvailability Group Failover changes Possible Owners of Cluster Resource
We have a couple of Geographically disperse SQL 2012 Clusters running on Server 2012. The Availability groups are originally configured to have all nodes as possible owners, so when an initial fail or...
View ArticleReplacing cluster node hardware
Hi,I'm currently in the following situation: (windows)cluster named: Cluster1Currently: 2 nodes named nodeA and nodeB function as Cluster1 (SAN disks)Step 1: 2 nodes named nodeC and nodeD will be...
View ArticleSQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn and WMware
Hi,I need if a WMware machine can support the AlwaysOn feature of SQL Server 2012.I haven't found any info about issues between AlwaysOn and WMware.Many thanks
View ArticleError: The backup of the file or filegroup "sysft_XXXX_FT" is not permitted...
Hi There,I am trying to do a full back up of a user database which has full text indexing on it. I use the maintenance plan wizard to set up a full backup. For some reason, I get this...
View ArticleMaximum worker threads: Always-On AG v.s. Database Mirroring
Hi Experts,We have 2-node failover cluster in data center A for PROD. Recently we built another 2-node failover cluster in data center B for DR purpose. Our windows team mistakenly built DR nodes on a...
View ArticleHow do I remove a node from Always on Availability Group in SQL 2012
Hello I was wondering if anyone could tell me to remove a node from an AOG group in SQL 2012. We currently have a two node Always on availability group and I need to replace one of the servers. My...
View ArticleMS SQL Server 2008 R2 Backups to CIFS
Version - MS SQL Server 2008 R2I would like to know if we can backup databases to a network (CIFS) share? If so is there a document for this?
View ArticleHow to protect (take backups) SQL 2012 AAG databases from DPM 2012 R2
Recently, we implemented SQL 2012 AAG, and have DPM 2012 R2 in the same domain environment, but after we installed DPM 2012 R2 agent on the SQL 2012 AAG servers, we are unable to see the SQL instance...
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