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My Project is in the initial stages of researching the requirements for SQL Server Failover Cluster. We have 3 Servers running SQL Server Currently, and we would like to consolidate the instances to...
View ArticleODBC CONNECTIVITY ON SQL 2012 FAILOVER CLUSTER
I have installed 2 nodes SQL 2012 FAILOVER CLUSTERS that is up and running. All nodes are up, network is up but when I try to configure dsn (odbc) from a client machine, it fails. Using Microsoft...
View ArticleJoining the secondary database to the availability group
Hi,I am attempting to create a always on AG using PowerShell, however when I issue the command:Add-SqlAvailabilityDatabase -Path "SQLSERVER:\SQL\TEST2\MSSQLDB\AvailabilityGroups\peter" -Database...
View ArticleStartup Setting of sql 2014 Clustered "SQL Server" Service
New cluster in testlab: Windows Server 2012 R2: N1, N2 (node 1, node 2) Sql Server 2014 installed on N1, N2 Storage server (uses SMB share for Sql Data and Quorum).N1 is...
View ArticleUnattended install of SQL Server
Hi,Is it possible to declare a variable for an instance or username for example and pass it to a setup.exe command to run a silent install?for example below (which obviolsy fail)Set...
View ArticlePhysically moving the FCI in an FCI+AG... Methods to keep quorum?
Currently I have a two node FCI using a Node and Disk Majority quorum, both nodes are physical servers. An AlwaysOn AG was configured within that FCI. I have two stand-alone nodes, both VMs, that...
View ArticleSql Access to individual node in a cluster
I setup my first Sql 2014 cluster. (Windows 2012 R2, Sql 2014). I can successfully use Management Studio by pointing it to the Sql Cluster name but not when I point to the Sql server instance on a...
View ArticleLoad Balancing with citrix netscalar
We currently have SQL 2008 servers (some clustered, some not) where we are looking to have no downtime for maintenance operations. I have been looking into load balancing technologies such as citrix...
View ArticleNeed a good test for see Sql Failover "in action"
I have a two node cluster in a testlab. I'm thinking of INSERTing a million rows in a table, and while the process is running, failover to the other node. (Obviously I'm hoping for minimal loss). Can...
View ArticleCan always on be created on active active node(only two nodes) using SQL...
Can always on be created on active active node(only two nodes) using SQL Server 2012 Enterprise edition 64 bit. Both of the nodes has windows server 2012 enterprise edition 64 bit
View ArticleSync SQL Server 2008 R2 database table to a different server
Dear All,Please advise I want to sync data from Server 1 to Server 2 both are SQL Server 2008 R2.This we want it to sync twice day, we have restored full backup. to Server 2.Please advise how we can...
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Cannot join a server to cluster
Hello TeamWe have to configure AlwaysOn to an already existing Failover Cluster Instance (FCIs) like in the below architecture. How is it now - Setup:FCI-1: SQLFCIPRIMARY\Inst_AFCI-2:...
View ArticleShrink Log File on High Availability
Dear supportgood day for you,i using SQL server 2012 and using AlwaysON High Availability (server_SQL1 = Primary & Server_SQL2=Secondary), when i try to shrink the log files he told me you must...
View ArticleIssue setting up my File Share witness
I am in the process of setting up a SQL Failover cluster over two availability zones in AWS. My issue I am having is my File share witness is throwing me an error when trying to set this part up....
View ArticleQuestion about the initial backup for log shipping - SQL 2008
Hi All, I'm in the process of setting up log shipping for several SQL 2008 DB's. Everything works fine using a small test DB, but for the next step, I need to configure Log shipping for a 100+GB DB...
View ArticleSQL 2014 FCI+AG on Clustered Shared Volumes design
Hello, I was assigned the task to design a new SQL 2014 environment for my company. Our current environment consists of two clusters of 4 nodes each (8 nodes total for the two clusters) in two...
View ArticleDR - SQL Server - VM's
Hi All:We have an discussion with VM team and DB team.Requirement: Configure DR for all the SQL Servers hosted on Virtual Machines.VM Team: They are asking us to configure Mirroring or Logshipping with...
View ArticleSQL 2012 Always On Availability Create Key for Dynamics CRM syntax
Hi I am trying to follow this terribly written article to setup CRM to be part of a SQL alwayson availability group. The part that is pissing me off is the create SQL logins....
View ArticleAvailability groups and full-text indexes.
Hello,I have created an availability group that contains a database. The database is working fine.I get a request to create a full-text catalog and to add full-text indexes.Is it possible to create...
View ArticleSQL Cluster and DNS
We are looking at consolidating our databases onto a Windows / SQL Server cluster. In our lab environment we have full control over the environment AD & DNS Servers. In our test and Production...
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