How to restore AlwaysOn Database
Would anyone have official documentation or know the official way to restore a database that is part of a Availability Group on SQL 2012 ? Why is this information not avail on official SQL...
View ArticleHow to enable high availability on SQL Server 2005 with Windows Server 2008...
Dear Folks,I would like to ask you about this thing. I'm working for IT department for bank in Myanmar. Our bank have up to 96 branches across all of Myanmar including H.O. We are using Microsoft SQL...
View ArticleSQL Server 2012 Clustering
Hi,I am looking for SQL Server 2012 4-Node clustering technical document or case studies.Please help me in this regard. Because next week we are planning to implement for one of our customer.
View ArticleCNO showing false information
I am testing SQL 2012 sp2, 2 node high availability configuration. Configuration is set for manual failover. After a failover each node performs as expected. On primary node database goes from...
View ArticleAlways On and Availability Groups
Hi all, I have been tasked with creating AG's and Always On for our SQL Server Infrastructure. My infrastructure is as below; 1. 14 SQL Instances 2. Over 30 Databases 3. All these are on two VM's. My...
View ArticleMany VLFs in high availability database
Hi,I have a database in high availability mode with a Log file of 16GB. Running DBCC SQLPERF (LOGSPACE) reveals that only 0.03% of the file is used. So I'd like to shrink the file. I performed full and...
View ArticleHow to Apply Windows (OS) Updates to Failover Clusters Hosting SQL Server...
If I am running a Windows Server 2012 Failover Cluster with SQL Server Always on Availability groups how am I supposed to apply Windows Updates to the cluster nodes?CAU is explicity not supported and...
View ArticleSQL 2012 Log Shipping error 14261
I have two servers and I had log shipping working but could not add any additional databases to the process. I deleted all the log shipping and I am still unable to add the databases back to the log...
View ArticleSQL Cluster on Windows 2012 R2 and SQL 2014
Hi, hopefully I've got the right forum. I've been watching stuff from teched. I want to install SQL server, in cluster mode, on a failover cluster that has 4 physical nodes and a number of VM's, on...
View Articleunable to failover the services in active-active cluster node
Hi,i am applying the sp2 patch for sql server 2008 r2 in active-active cluster, we have 3 services in the cluster , node 1 as 2 prefered owner and node 2 as 1 prefered owner, when i try to move the...
View ArticleConvert SQL 2012 standalone to Always on
Hi,I have a production SQL 2012 server with one database. Is it possible to convert that to two node always on cluster? What will happen to the existing database residing in that server? Please...
View ArticleEvent 5244 during Repair_Rebuild
Hey all. I am totally stuck here. Using SQL Server 2008 ver 10.0.6000I have a database we are trying to run DBCC CHECKDB Repair_Rebuild on but continue to get message:Repair (rebuild) failed: Repair...
View ArticleRead only DNS listener failover automation from primary to secondary
Ok...so here is the requirement. I have a 2 node cluster with 2 standalone 2k14 instances having alwayson setup. As per client requirement we have created a client access point with a cname alias in...
View ArticleMerge Replication
Hello Experts,we are using sql server 2008 R2 on three different servers, which are configured with merge replication, and are working fine.Due to one requirement, i added two new tables to the...
View ArticleDelete database that's stuck in restoring mode
Hi,one of the databases got stuck in restoring mode. I want to delete that without stopping sql service. I tried detaching and then deleting the physical files but didn't work. It just came back. I...
View ArticleAlwaysOn
Hi,I having some confusion while i refer different web sites regards to number of replicas in SQL 2012/2014,1. 2012= (1Primary+3Secondaries) OR 2012= (1Primary+4Secondaries)2. 2014=...
View ArticleSQL SERVER Failover Clustering
I want to Learn SQL SERVER Failover Clustering 2008 , plz provide documentation
View ArticleMultiple SQL Server Instances and MSDTC / AGs usage
Hello, We are in the planning stages of migrating from SQL Server 2008R2 to 2012 to be running on Windows Server 2012, and I have a question about MSDTC, Availability Groups and multiple sql instances...
View ArticleSQL Server 2012 AlwaysON Monitoring using SCOM
Team,We have SCOM deployed and is serving as a monitoring solution for our SQL Estate. However I want some pointers to monitor the health of DBs within Avaialibility Group like DB Sync, log queue etc....
View ArticlePlan to move database to cluster
Hi Experts,We are in need to move to database " venkat" to the cluster without having to re-initialize it's secondaries in log shipping.What we plan to do is--- we can Log Ship from "Venkat" database...
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