How to implement bi-directional transactional replication in Standard Edition...
Hi Experts,Looking for some help on how to implement bi-directional transactional replication in Standard Edition SQL 2008?Any links or book title would be a great help.Thanks in Advance.Sam
View ArticleConstantly getting "Reopen for Clustered Client Failover registered...
Hi everybody.Hope somebody will be able to help me with the following issue. I have the following environment configuration:1. WFC cluster (cluster1) contains 3 nodes - sql1,sql2,sql32. sql1 and sql2...
View ArticleAvailability Group Database( secondary) went to Suspect mode. What is the...
Hi Folks,database went suspect mode in secondary server. ( sql 2012 SP1)1. How to bring online,Is it possible withuot breaking primary.2. can we access only primary.3. What are the modes (...
View ArticleUnable to create a SQL Server 2014 listener in failover cluster (Azure VM)
Hi,I'm trying to configure a high availability SQL cluster using SQL Availability Groups and Windows failover clustering, all nodes are based in Azure. Â I have one Windows server as a witness server...
View ArticleSQL 2008 R2 Doubletake FIles and Folders job - Master Database
I am trying to replicate (using DoubleTake) and SQL Instance to another physical server. I am replicating the following folders to the target server:C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL...
View ArticleSystem databases
Hi,Can i restore system database and user databases from lower editions to higher editions and vice versa.from SQL 2005 standard to Enterprise and vice versa     SQL 2008 standard to Enterprise and...
View ArticlePlace Management Data Warehouse in an Availability Group
Is it possible to place the SQL Server Management Datawarehouse in an Availability Group in order to have high availability? If so, what happens during failover? Is there any extra configuration...
View ArticleUnable to Find SQL Agent
Hi There,We are using SQL Server 2012 and we would like to do create schedule for the SQL Backup. As I know, the backup is performed by the SQL Agent. However, we can't find where the SQL agent is....
View ArticleAlwaysOn AG issue during backup
Hi everyone,I've a strange issue on our AlwaysOn Cluster Sql Server 2012 Enterprise multi-instance, I'm evaluating to open a support case to MS but I would share the issue with the community before...
View ArticleIs my installation of SQL Server Fail Over cluster correct?
I made a 2 node SQL Server 2012 fail over cluster but having some problems during installation so I wanted to know if the steps below I performed are correct.HardwareNode1 192.168.1.10 Node2...
View ArticleBackup Solutions For Large Databases
Situation: I have a monthly SQL Serer database release/upgrade/blockpoint during the same time all the maintenance jobs are running on the server. So, it takes about an hour to backup this particular...
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 ArticleIs AlwaysOn Not Supported on SQL server 2012 Standard & Windows 2012 R2...
Guys,I was trying to enable AlwaysOn present in SQL Server Configuration Manager Prop.Software Details:SQL server 2012 Standard and OS is Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard 64 Bit.But, it says either the...
View ArticleRename SQL Instance
Is it possible to rename the SQL instance (Default/Named) in sql 2000/2005/2008/2008R2/2012?
View ArticleInstalling SP3 at SQL Server 2008R2 Active-Passive Cluster (2 node)
Hi,I have 2 node SQLServer 2008R2 cluster where two separate instances ERP & APPS is running on each node separately. Every other node is passive to the node having the active instance. like:ERP...
View ArticleAlways On Security
Is there a way to grant a SQL Server Login access to a listener while not granting access to the underlying nodes of the Availability Group?We have an 2-node (Synchronous) Availability Group (NodeA and...
View ArticleSQL Server Cluster
We are trying to create a SQL Server Cluster for High Availability. We have 2 HP BL460c server with 8GB with Window Server 2012 R2 Datacenter Edition. I would be glad if someone can provide us with...
View ArticleSQL Server 2014 AG + Clustered Shared Volume
I am testing this scenario in a lab environment: Node 1 + Node 2 = Failover Instance Node 3 = Secondary Availability Group. I am using Shared Clustered Volumes for the Failover Cluster. This causes the...
View ArticleSQL Server 2012 failover cluster issue
Hello,I have setup SQL Server 2012 SE cluster environment on Windows Server 2008 R2 EE for our production. This is an Active Passive setup with just one instance. The environment is based of a Shared...
View ArticleDB mail not working in sql server 2005
Hi,from today i get following error on sql server 2005Â Exception Type: Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.SqlIMail.Server.Common.BaseException Message: There was an error on the connection. Reason: Timeout...
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