Manual or Automatic failover?
For SQL Server (2005/2008/R2) cluster, after failover happened from one node to another, how do I tell whether it was an automatic failover or somebody failed it over manually. This would help further...
View ArticleCan sql 2008 r2 and sql 2012 coexist on the same cluster node, and the right...
Hi,I have two questions about sql server cluster installation:First,Can sql 2008 r2 and sql 2012 cluster instances coexist on the same cluster node, and two version instances works?Second, after i...
View ArticleDowntime needs to be reduced while processing releases
Hi All,We are having SQL Server 2012 which is configured in Mirroring. Both are Standard Editions. These servers are configured in customer environment and we do process frequent releases on these...
View ArticleAlwaysON configuration & windows cluster requirements.
Hello,We currently have AlwaysON setup on 3-node windows cluster for which the details are as below,SQL Instance-A: (SQL Server 2012 EE)Node-1 (Active)Node-2 (Passive)SQL Instance -C: (Secondary server...
View Articlelogshipping error on secondary
The log shipping secondary database has restore threshold of 45 minutes and is out of sync. No restore was performed for 1 minutes. Restored latency is 240 minutes. Check agent log and logshipping...
View Articlelogshipping error on secondary
The log shipping secondary database has restore threshold of 45 minutes and is out of sync. No restore was performed for 1 minutes. Restored latency is 240 minutes. Check agent log and logshipping...
View ArticleSQL Server AlwaysOn- Service Restart Sequence
Team,Most of our SQL databases are configured on AlwaysON Availability group. I was looking at best practices in restarting a SQL service. Ex: If we change any port details/windows patching etc.I am...
View ArticleSQL Server Clustering
Hi,I have Active/Passive cluster in my Infra with SQL server 2008 on top of Server 2008.It has connected with Application server.When ever people are facing problems in Apps end failover and failback...
View ArticleMSDTC in SQL Server Cluster
First off I'm no DBA I'm an infrastructure guy.I have a SQL server 2012 fail-over cluster with shared storage on a SAN. At the time of building I was advised to add the MSDTC resource to the cluster...
View ArticleSQL Server 2012 new availibilty group wizard error
hi!I am trying to configure "AlwaysOn Availability Group"I have 2 SQL servers, and i created 2 different names instances on them and also enabled always on availability on both servers.Now i am trying...
View ArticleAlwaysOn with Cluster SQL in Active /Passive Configurations
Dear Reader,I want to know if AlwaysOn Availability can work in below scenario:2 Servers running windows 2012 with failover cluster service configured for clustering (Node1, Node2, cluster Name:...
View Articlesql 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Group multiple FCI
I`m Reading prerequisites : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff878487(v=sql.110).aspx#FciArLimitationsAnd I’m not sure that I understand this sentence correctly :The cluster nodes of an FCI...
View ArticleSQL 2014 Clustered with CSV
I just built up a test two node clustered environment with Server 2012R2. Everything seems to be functioning, however, the default file paths seem inaccessible within SQL tools. Meaning, if I try to...
View ArticleCan I continue installing SQL Server instances on a cluster that has cluster...
I'm setting up a SQL Server Failover Cluster. After configuring the Failover Cluster I received an event error 1196:"Cluster network name resource 'Cluster Name' failed registration of one or more...
View ArticleHow is the impact when a sql server cluster instance failover to a downlevel...
Hi,I have a one instance two nodes sql 2012 cluster, node1's sql 2012 version is 11.0.5522, node2's sql 2012 version is 11.0.3000, node1 is active.When sql server failover from node1 to node2, it...
View ArticleMirroring Scripts
Hi,Can we script out mirroring for the databases which are already mirrored? I googled but did not get it. Thanks.
View ArticleReplication for High Write SQL Server Environment
Hello everybody,Long-time reader, first time writer ;-).We have been analyzing our SQL environment with our vendor and wanted to reach out to the community to ask for advice. Our main solution takes...
View ArticleQuestion on sql cluster failover behaviour
Hi Experts, I have a doubt on SQL Cluster. In SQL cluster, If we MOVE the group or failover the group to another node what happens to the user connections(say 100 conn's) and ongoing open transactions...
View ArticleSQL Server 2008 R2 Cluster Service failed for 1 Node
Hello,Appreciate if anybody has come across a cluster failover scenario as belowWe have a 3 node SQL cluster environment and all the presented disks are SAN Luns. Each of the nodes are having their own...
View Articlelog shipping question
Hi Experts,In log shipping Secondary server, restore job is failing as there is no disk space to perform the restore operation? How to resolve this problem without breaking log shipping?Thanks in advance
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