Use service accounts at AlwaysOn Availability Groups
Valued readers,We have a AlwaysOn Availability Group consisting of 2 SQL servers. Both servers have their own service account for the sql services. I read in all sorts of documents on the internet that...
View ArticleSQL Server cluster uninstallation
Getting below issue while uninstalling SQL server 2008: error "sql server failover cluster name couldn't find the cluster resource"
View ArticleDR testing with Always On
I have an Always On secondary replica of a production DB. We need to perform DR testing against it which requires it to be read-write during the test. When the test is over (perhaps takes 1 hour) I...
View ArticleSSIS Jobs Failover in HA
please help me with the below query?We have 2 physical servers (Server1 and Server2). Both the physical servers SSIS is installed. Jobs and Packages are running under server1 ,If any failure in the...
View Articlesteps to change SQL Server Cluster IP
Hi,I have set-up 2 Node SQL Server 2012 High Availability Server and installed SharePoint 2013. Now our systems IPs going to be changed.Tell what what steps need to be taken, what steps to be take care...
View ArticleUpgrade Microsoft SQL Server 2012 RTM AlwaysOn Availability Groups to SQL...
Dears,Any help how to Upgrade Microsoft SQL Server 2012 RTM AlwaysOn Availability Groups to SQL Server 2012 SP1I tried to upgrade the secondary node using this SP1 Setup...
View ArticleSQL 2014 Always On Distributed Transactions
We are planning on upgrading to SQL 2014 but we have many cross database/same server or remote server (selects, updates, inserts, deletes). We would like to use Always on read only secondaries to...
View ArticleHow to RAID my disks in this scenario?
Hi all,I have two instances of SQL Server on two different physical servers. The SAN admin has dedicated 8 disks to my SQL Servers.Now I have two choices to configure these disks:Scenario A: Make a...
View ArticleApplication hangs and sql log shows "I/O is frozen" for minutes until "I/O...
VSS is being invoked to backup our SQL Server 2012 databases throughout the day. Occasionally, maybe once every few days, the application using the database hangs for a few minutes and coincidentally...
View ArticleAlways On: Detect from client which replica is active
Since the client simply connects to the listener and gets an IP, is there a way through either the client object model or a query which I can use from the client to determine which replica is on the...
View ArticleAlwaysOn 2012 Failover has problem: fails
Hi all,this is my first post ever, so I apoligize if I'm not doing well.We installed SQL Server 2012. All good!We configured AlwaysOn High Availability Group. Some problems but all good!We are testing...
View ArticleHow to Updates High Availability Listener IP
Hi,i have created SQL Server High Availability Group with listener. Now Cluster, machine, and listener IP have changed.pls guide me step how to updated all IP Cluster, and HA availability listener.thx...
View ArticleAuditing cluster events - can we see who paused a node?
HelloWe have a 2 node cluster with an active passive configuration - running server 2008 r2 / SQL 2008We had an issue today where one of the nodes was paused; and the active node had an issue with the...
View ArticleMsg 3101, Level 16, State 1 in RESTORE LOG when DB in Restoring mode and with...
Hi, I can't restore a db which is in restoring mode and it before was altered to SINGLE_USER. I'm using the next command:"RESTORE LOG [db] FROM DISK = N'J:\db1.trn' FILE = 1, NORECOVERY,...
View ArticleCreate failed for Availability Group Listener IP Address
Hi,want to change ip of listenr or add new Ip to listener or delete listener but getting error on adding ip pls guide.Create failed for Availability Group Listener IP Address 'IPaddress X.X.X.196 of...
View ArticleSQL Server Always On
Hi we are using SQL 2012 Enterprise edition, I tried to click on the always on availability tab from the SQL Server management studio, but it gets an error message "Enable the option from SQL server...
View ArticleWhat would corrupt an AlwaysOn Replica like this?
I have SQL 2012 AlwaysOn set up on 2 FCIs (failover cluster instances). The purpose of AlwaysOn here is not for HA or DR. It's just to give me a real-time readable replica of 150+ production databases....
View ArticleDowntime and space conssiderations for DR tables
I have 3 production databases of size > 300 GB, 3 tables(< 3 million) in each databases are considered as very critical financial tables, How do I set up a DR plan for this? Am using Sql 2008...
View ArticleCDC Issue
Hi All,I have two CDC enabled mirrored DB's DB1 is Primary and DB2(created on server 2) is secondary . I am using SSIS to extract Changed Data from DB1 . When failover on DB1 happens , it is not...
View ArticleMultiple Availability Groups under one Listener
Hi,Not sure if doing this is right or even required. I was just wondering if it's possible to have two availability groups under one listener.I have AG1 and AG2. I created Listener1 and mapped it...
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