Expand/Extend disk in SQL 2014 AAG running on VMware
I created a 2-node AAG in vSphere 5.5 running Windows Server 2012 R2 and SQL 2014 and noticed when I tried to increase the data drive (non-boot volume) the newly allocated VM disk space is reflected...
View ArticleExtra Availability Group Or Extra Instance
Hello all,We've implemented AlwaysOn High availability, an AV Group on three servers. Now we want one server to host sql activity too.This can be done by creating a second availability group with its...
View ArticleSQLWRITER Error
I found the following error in the event log:Sqllib error: OLEDB Error encountered calling ICommandText::Execute. hr = 0x80040e14. SQLSTATE: 42000, Native Error: 3013 Error state: 1, Severity: 16...
View ArticleNeed a script to create Log-Shipping status reports
Hi All,In my company log shipping is set up for 5,6 databases i n each server so i need a script that which can generate reports at time for all the databases and i can get the mail about the reports....
View ArticleAlways on network latency between datacenters
When we open Always on dashboard, we see network latency [Estimated Data Loss] on secondary server and our secondary server basically DR server is in different datacenter. Latency causes log file full...
View ArticleThe log shipping restore job restores a corrupted transaction log backup to a...
Dear Sir,I have primary sql instances in cluster node and it is configured with log shipping for DR system.The instance fails over before the log shipping backup job finishes. Therefore, a corrupted...
View ArticleIssues with AlwaysOn High Availability
I am facing below issues while working with High Availability Group* While executing PowerShell script as described in below link, getting error...
View Article3 node cluster with 1 vInstance. vInstance can not to fail-over to one...
I have a 3 node cluster all running Windows Server 2008 R2. Roughly once a month I see my vInstance become degraded and attempt to fail-over. Everything is good as long as it fail-over to SQL01 or...
View ArticleWhere to place witness server for SQL mirroring using high-safety and...
We have 2 data centers, site 1 and site 2. Site 1 is generally our primary, and site 2 is our Disaster Recovery (DR) site. I want to setup a SQL instance to have extremely high availability....
View ArticleSQL Cluster + high-safety, synchronous mirroring?
Very simple question. Is it possible to have a SQL cluster at site 1, another SQL cluster at site 2 (for DR) and have the 2 sites synchronously replicate to one another using high-safety mirroring?...
View ArticleSQL 2005 Cluster
Hi,I have 2 SQL 2005 database servers setup in a cluster and they both have the following: SQL Server Management Studio 9.00.3042.00 and .Net Framework 2.0.50727.42, I am planning to update the .Net...
View ArticleDataBase unavailable and Mirrored Db role has chnaged.
Hello All,We got below errors in our principal and Mirror db servers.1) The mirroring connection to "TCP://servername.domain.com:5022" has timed out for database "Db name" after 10 seconds without a...
View ArticleDR Solution Using FCI with SIOS DataKeeper
I've already seen a few discussions touching on this topic of DR solution using DataKeeper to perform block level replication to a DR site hundreds of miles away from the primary data center. Even...
View ArticleUninterrupted availability of data in SQL Server
I'm trying to solve a problem my company has in its data warehouse of data availability. We have dozens of transactional databases in production from which we pull data to create a cache of data that...
View ArticleAlways-on High Availability issue
Hi,I have configured Always-on high availability on Windows Cluster server and it is working fine on both cluster the nodes.But while Connecting to SQL Server from third machine within a domain using...
View Articlelogshippin backup job failed
Hi team,Logshipping backups jobs failed ERROR :2012-11-22 05:40:21.52 *** Error: Could not retrieve backup settings for primary ID...
View ArticleERROR "An exception has been raised that is likely due to a transient...
Application team is receiving the following error message when applications try to connect through the Availablity Group Listener using readonly parameter: "An exception has been raised that is likely...
View ArticleFail-over time difference between 2 node active/passive FCI cluster, and...
I am trying to think of different ways to build a highly available SQL instance, and have been mulling over different options. How much time difference is there during failover between a pretty...
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 ArticleT-SQL Code to backup database with multiple files - Syntax error
Hello,I'm trying to backup a database into multiple files but I'm getting a syntax error.Here is the code:declare @DBName varchar(100) declare @DBFileName varchar(256) declare @FolderName varchar(256)...
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