Lossless manual failover after quorum restored not possible?
Our quorum was lost then brought back online (i think). Why couldn't we perform a lossless manual failover? Our config has a primary and a synchronous replica and a 3rd fileshare witness. We had an...
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how many number of secondary servers can be there while performing log shipping.(is there any limit)?
View ArticlePrimary log file is not available for database 'TestDB' (7:0). The log cannot...
Hi All,We are doing restoring in a different data center and keep sending log backups and restore from there.Recently we want to bring a new volume to the sql server and move all databases to the new...
View ArticleVSS Writer SqlServerWriter fails with 3rd party backup solution.
I am having some troubles with the Sql VSS writer. I am using a 3rd party backup solution, and it is failing because each time a snapshot is attempted the writer (SqlServerWriter) fails with a...
View ArticleHow do I connect to secondary on a multi-subnet availability group?
I have multi-subnet in two location ( Boston and Atl)Boston (Primary):2 physical servers: 1) BosProdSQL1 2) BosProdSQL2 Installed SQL Server as named instanceATL (Secondary):2 physical servers: 1)...
View ArticleHA and DR strategy: REPLICATION , LOG-SHIPPING or BOTH
Hello Experts, I need a advise on one of our projects where: We have 3 SQL database servers A, B and C: A is the live production server with around 200 users with a database of size 1.5 TB hosted. B...
View ArticleBACKUP LOG suddenly failed with Msg 35250, Level 16, State 11 The connection...
I have AlwaysOn SQL 2012 Enterprise set-up using Windows Failover Clustering Services (not FCI), and have 1 Primary node (P), 1 Synchronous Commit Auto Failover (SC), and 1 Asynchronous Commit Manual...
View ArticleRequest for a READONLY Listener that redirects clients to secondaries
We currently have a 3 node HA cluster, with two nodes in a synchronous configuration and a third at our DR site as Asynchronous. We use one of the secondaries as a read-only copy. Our SSRS...
View ArticleInstalling windows cluster for always on
Hi, I have 2 SQL-VMs with Windows 2008 R2 and SQL 2012 SP1. I want to create a windows failover cluster with a file share in one of my SQL servers to configure always-on. Could you please suggest me a...
View ArticleAlways On Error
The redo logs synchronization rate for the ABCD-Secondary replica has reduced to 483 KB/s. on XYZ-Primary.What does this alert mean?
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Hi,We configured always on in 2012 in synchronous mode. In last two days multiple times fail-over happen.Now where can i check how many times and at what time fail-over happen? I didn't find this...
View ArticleFailover cluster setup
Hello,I am using SQL 2012 SE with clustering on Windows server 2008 R2. Now I want migrate it to windows server 2012 with minimal down time. So I want to evict the passive node and add a new node with...
View ArticleCan not uninstall SQL server 2012 and remove failover cluster too
Hi I want to uninstall sql server , the error said I have to remove the cluster node . from sql setup.exe from maintenance I try to remove it , but it couldn't fine any instance to remove , and again...
View ArticleReg service pack installation in failover cluster
Hi Guys,I want to install service pack 3 to my SQL Server 2012 Enterprise running on windows server 2008 R2 Enterprise fail over cluster, I read about the SP installation in technet, its mentioned that...
View ArticleLog File size growing too big need to truncate in SQL Server 2012 with...
Hello, I want to truncate my sharepoint config database and WSS_Logging database logs the size of sharepoint_config database is growing at a pace of ~10GB every week. I have scheduled a weekly full...
View Articledisaster recovery on loss of a data drive, SQL 2008 R2
I am looking for some advice on how to deal with loss of a drive containing user databases. There is some storage work upcoming that has a low risk of drive failure, but I want to know how to deal...
View ArticleLog Shipping - Copying older TRN logs - Correct or not?
Setup log shipping from an Australian SQL2008R2 server to a UK SQL2012 server. With the time involved to copy the large backup file across a WAN link, we end up with around 2 days of log backups since...
View ArticleDoes SQL Azure provide handle automatic failover when geo-replicated?
We have a geo-replicated database in SQL Azure (Premium) and are wondering if we are pointing to the South Central US database that is the master, if that goes down do we have to manually change our...
View Articleconfiguration option 'user options' changed from 0 to 0
Hello,I'm trying to execute backup job on secondary replica on clustered server(with HA) and I getting the error:execution failed see the maintenance plan and sql server agent job history logs for...
View Articlet-sql to list out sql jobs failing from two weeks
Hi,I need a sql script for list of sql agent jobs that have been failing from the past two weeks. I just need a simple sql script.Thanks in advance
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