Issues in Re-configure of Merge replication
Hi All, I need to re-establish the Merge Replication with Push Subscription. For some reason the subscriber 'ABC'server crashed.When I re-initialised the replication from Publisher <XYZ > I get...
View ArticleAG Automatic Failover using FCI
Hi,I'd like to understand why it is not possible to automatic Failover Availability Groups using Failover Cluster Instances. I think it would be great for DR and HA. Do you understand why that...
View ArticleSolid disaster and recover strategy for SQL Server 2000, 2005, 2008 and 2012
Hi! Dear Sirs,@Version 2005 :I have a cluster with 5 instances with SQL SERVERThe sql server Select @@version is :Microsoft SQL Server 2005 - 9.00.5000.00 (X64)Dec 10 2010 10:38:40 Copyright (c)...
View ArticleUnable to disable Log Shipping SQL 2008 with SA account (or any other admin)
I recently enabled log shipping on our production database, and I had initially accpted the default of 72 hours to delete copied logs. Well, i am running out of space quick, and I need to edit it to...
View ArticleAllwaysOn Data and Transaction Log file not shrinking and will not release...
We have an Availability Group on SQL 2012 where the Data and TLog files are growing too large.The Data file indicates 72% free space and the TLog indicates 90% free. We are doing a full backup of the...
View ArticleIn Logshipping Primary Instance/ When server Reboots ,logshipping jobs - Next...
Hi All,Environment- SQL server 2012 SP2 | windows server 2008 We have a log shipping setup with one secondary . consider If my Primary Instance-Servers gets rebooted. The copy & restore job in my...
View ArticleMy SQL2000 server crashed files
My SQL2000 server crashed, and I was able to recover the data and log files. I had to reinstall from scratch after that. I found that I can use the sp_attach_db procedure to create databases on the new...
View ArticleWindows 2003 to 2012R2 Active Directory migration and Windows 2008 MSSQL cluster
Hello,I am migrating a forest/domain from Windows 2003 AD to Windows 2012R2 AD, by adding new domain controllers, then demoting the old DCs and raising the forest/domain functionality level to...
View ArticleAlways on Failover issue
Hi,Firstly, SQL is not my strongest area so please bear with me.I have 2 node AlwaysOn cluster setup with a File Share Witness.I want to failover from my Primary node to my Secondary node.When I...
View ArticleMeasure SQL server high availability target
Hi GurusSuppose we sign a SLA with the client that the SQL HA target will be 99.999%.According to above we know: outage time = 365(a year) * 24 (hours) * 0.001 = 8.76(hours).How to make sure the...
View ArticleSQL 2012 cluster for VDI, failover cluster with mirroring VS failover cluster...
Hi, we have to build high availability SQL 2012 cluster for VDI and we have two options. One option is to build a server cluster with combination of failover and mirroring and other option is to build...
View ArticleDo the read-only connections string point back to the primary if the readable...
Hi,I have a 5 node cluster all using AG's 2014.We are about to start patching our servers and all of our critical databases are highly available with at least one secondary. The first server (call it...
View ArticleSQL 2012 AlwaysOn Testing
Hi,We have newly installed nearly 10 SQL server AlwaysOn server on Windows Server 2012 R2 as part of migration.now I am planning to Test all these servers , i mean i am planning to prepare test cases...
View ArticleSQL server does not respond until I login to the server
We have had few incident with SQL server 2008 R2 where we could not connect to the DB server. The server was not available through applications nor we could connect to it through MSQL server management...
View ArticleMultisubnet availability group without stretched VLANs nor DNS update and...
I'm required to implement a multisubnet availability group using SQL 2012 under the following requirements:1. Legacy drivers that do not accept MultiSubnetFailover=TRUE2. No DNS update from SQL...
View ArticleDifferential Backup with Simple Recovery model
Hi,We have a database in Simple Recovery Model and it's size is growing. We would like to introduce differential backup to reduce the backup size and time. Our idea is to take one full backup on...
View ArticleClustered Task giving RPC Server unavailable error
Hi everyone,I have a clustered environment with SQL AlwaysOn. When I try to create a clustered task using powershell using this command, I get an errorRegister-ClusteredScheduledTask : The RPC server...
View ArticleReverse AlwaysOn Failover Flow of Data.
We are using Always on Groups for DR and Cluster as HA.The cluster is spread across 3 global regions (geo cluster with remote witness) and 3 data centers with 4 physical nodes across each DC.We have 2...
View ArticleHow to test always on availablity after configuring them.
How to test always on availablity after configuring them.Hi, I have configured always on group with 1 active and 1 passive with readonly.I want to test from application.what are cases which we can have...
View ArticleManual log shipping configuration between DC's
Hi,I have two instances in two different DC's ,Hence communication between Instances not possible(Telnet/Ping),But we can move any files usingServer Message Block (SMB) folders.Please let me know if...
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