Database 'msdb' cannot be opened
Anyone help?I opened SQL Server management studio and tried to connect with the local database and received the error message: Database 'msdb' cannot be opened. It has been marked suspect.....I have...
View ArticleLog shipping failure - how to recover?
I have a primary database far away. The database is large.To maintain a local copy I use log shipping.This has worked for a year.Now one of the .trn files is corrupted.How can I recover?Any help will...
View ArticleClik here to view.
SQLAlwaysOn 2012-Query server name shows NODE name not Cluster name
Hi guys,I just finished setting up my SQLAlwaysOnLab for our Development team. I'm having an issue understanding the AlwaysOn HA feature.... When I run the "SELECT @@SERVERNAME AS 'Server Name'" The...
View Articlesql server log shipping error
sql server log shipping job works fine: Lscopy and LsrestoreBut LSAlert_abc\DR keeps failing:Error message is:The Log shipping secondary database abc.database1 has threshold of 420 minutes and is out...
View ArticleHow do I restore sql server database primary data back .mdf
Hello guysMy server crashed but luckily I was not able to get back my files with help of recovery software. Now, all I have from the database are just sql server database primary data .mdf and sql...
View ArticleIndex Maintenance
Hi,Yesterday when ran Statistics update on 2 TB data (Windows Server 2008 R2), it's took almost 6 hrs.But some time it is not acceptable ton PROD environment, in this case what is the proper way to...
View ArticleHow to find out cluster Log location using Cluster management console
Hi All,I want to that how can I get the Cluster Log File location using Cluster management console. which records all the cluster and cluster services and cluster resource level logs.Your help would be...
View ArticleCan't access cluster via SQL Server Mng Studio unless node has ownership
Hi:We have Windows and SQL 2008 R2 in a 2 node cluster. Failover and failback work like a dream. All the 'lights' are green. But we can only access the cluster when we're on the node that has...
View ArticleAdding second node to SQL Server cluster fails. - Credential for SQL Server...
Dear all,I have created a cluster with the following details:OS : Windows Server 2008 R2, Hyper-VI have already installed SQL Server 2008 R2 on NODE1.When I am adding a NODE from NODE2 i am getting the...
View ArticleAlwaysON cluster issues
Hi, we've been having some serious issues with our AlwaysON cluster configuration. This is the short description of the scenario: - Windows Server 2008R2 (Active Directory and DNS) (Subnet 1) - Windows...
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 ArticleServer 2008 standard connects to SQL 2012 timeout when Multisubnetfailover =...
We have a SQL 2012 setup that offers multi-subnet failover ability, but are having issues to connect to it with Multisubnetfailover = true. The connection jus times out.After some research, we were...
View Articlecluster install
i am installing clustered instance on 4 nodes. Should i move msmdsrv.ini config file to shared drive or should i leave it in default location? it appears that one benefit of having it on clustered disk...
View ArticleSql Server 2012 Always On- Find time required for failover and related...
Hi,I would like to calculate following statistics related to failover for Always on Failover Cluster Instance(FCI) as well as Availability Group:-It would be great if someone can point me to the sql...
View ArticleAutomatically add a Database to an Availability Group
Dears, I need to know if there any way to configure SQL always on to automatically add new Databases to an Availability Group.Ayman Saleh
View ArticleGRANT CONNECT on Endpoint required for availaibity groups?
One of our DBAs recently left, and when I was removing there login I found they had explicitly granted a connect on the availability group's endpoint to it's login.The login itself is a sysadmin, so...
View Articlesys.dm_hadr_instance_node_map returns no rows
We have an AlwaysOn Availability Group with 5 replicas. It's been running for over a year, and has had no problems. It seems healthy, by every check we can devise. We have practiced graceful...
View ArticleSQL 2012 AlwaysOn
We have the production SQL instance on a single Azure VM now and we are planning to implement the SQL AlwaysOn.To minimize the risk we are thinking about creating two more VMs then configure the...
View ArticleAllowing databases to be put back into standby mode if not changes have occured
We have a large compressed Prod backup file over 40GB. We refresh our other environments on a regular basis. It takes over 8 hours to copy. Would like to use logshipping to keep a copy of prod on...
View ArticleSyncing SQL Databases over Slow VPN ?
We have a SQL 2008 Server hosting different databases of different applications running in our organization.I need to setup a disaster recovery for it the process will require me to sync all this data...
View Article