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New SQL Server Failover Cluster Installation - No disk is available to select...
Hello Everyone,I am in a deep need for your help regarding the problem I am facing.I am doing a New SQL Server Failover Cluster Installation in a virtual server that is part of a failover cluster. I am...
View ArticleScript Powershell to check Always on status
hiI am looking for a script or help to write a script that would give me some information about my state of cluster failover and state groups availability group.I wish to know my machine node that owns...
View ArticleSQL 2012 AlwaysOn Dual Data Centre (an instance in each data centre with a...
Hi, hopefully someone will be able to find my scenario interesting enough to comment on!We have two instances of SQL, for this example I will call them 'L' and 'J'. We also have two data-centres, for...
View ArticleCreate High Availability Group - Validation failed
I encountered 'Checking Shared network location' error while working on the 'SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Group' provided by the TechNet Virtual Labs. The error happened on Exercise 4, task...
View ArticleHow to recover WSFC / SQL setup
We had small domain consisting of a Windows domain controller and two Windows 2008 R2 servers running SQL 2012. The SQL servers were part of a WSFC, and set up with a AlwaysOn Availability Group. The...
View ArticleQuestion about updating SQL Server on failover cluster
Hi all,I would like to better understand the update process of SQL Server (2008 r2) in a failover cluster environment.In our cluster we have 4 instances of SQL running, where two of them I am able to...
View ArticleValidation of viewstate MAC failed
hello everyonei have seen some error in my sql server logs. hear is####Validation of viewstate MAC failed. If this application is hosted by a Web Farm or cluster, ensure that <machineKey>...
View ArticleAlwaysON AG + Replication
Hi All,Can we combine Always on Availability Groups and Replication? Any pointers to useful resources or whitepapers ?Thank you.Sam
View ArticleSQL Server 2014 data files on Azure blob storage with SQL AG - how to add...
Hello,I'm looking at storing my SQL data files on SQL Azure blob storage and using SQL AG as well between my SQL replicas (all in Azure), however I've been unable to find the answer to the following...
View ArticleTransaction Log Backup job.
Hi, My customer is requesting me to setup transaction log backup jobs on both principal instance database and mirrored instance database,here are the instructions to set up jobsThe jobs should be...
View ArticleRestoring transaction logs from log shipping
Dear all, Currently, I am testing SQL log shipping features for DR purposes. Setting up the log transaction is simple. No problems encountered. However, when I tried to restore earlier transaction logs...
View ArticleWelcome to the SQL Server Disaster Recovery and Availability Forum
(Edited 8/14/2009 to correct links - Paul)Hello everyone and welcome to the SQL Server Disaster Recovery and Availability forum. The goal of this Forum is to offer a gathering place for SQL Server...
View ArticleEmail alert if SQL Server Services stop abruptly
Hi,I am a SQL Server DBA and I am currently working on setting up email alerts in case if SQL Server services stop abruptly.I have currently written a VB script which runs every 1 hr and checks if a...
View ArticleEmail Should Receive Whenever SQL Server is Stopped.
Hi SQL Experts,I have a requirement like "Email Should Receive Whenever SQL Server is Stopped", so that i can reduce the downtime or escalations.SQL Server Version: 2012Windows Server Version:...
View ArticleThe package execution returned DTSER_FAILURE (1).
Hi, I have a problem with my SQL 2005 Transactionlog backup. I get an error on the schedule job: MessageExecuted as user: TNET\sqlservice. Microsoft (R) SQL Server Execute Package Utility Version...
View ArticleSQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Secondary Operational State Unknown
I recently configured SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability group using two nodes - a primary and one secondary read only replica. The group is residing on a windows 2012 cluster with an smb file...
View ArticleConfigure multiple instances on a 2 node cluster
HiOur requirement is to configure 3 names instances(SQL2008 R2) on 2 node cluster . Can I use the same Vhostname ,Virtual IP's and shared disks for all the 3 instances ? or need to create 3 ? What is...
View ArticleDB mail not working in sql server 2005
Hi,from today i get following error on sql server 2005 Exception Type: Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.SqlIMail.Server.Common.BaseException Message: There was an error on the connection. Reason: Timeout...
View ArticleCommands to validate SQL 2012 cluster setting
What are the steps to add new node in to existing SQL cluster and also looking for a command to validate cluster setting not interested to run validation report.Rahul
View ArticleHow to obtain actual file name of a FILESTREAM file.
When a file is added to a FILESTREAM Blob field in SQL Server 2008 the file is renamed to something like 0000001c-0000019c-0004. Is there a way to retrieve this file name after a file is added? I...
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