is it possible to deploy Always On by using instances?
hi, can you confirm that  is it not possible?Thanks in advance,
View ArticleSQL Availability Groups for HA and DR
Hi Team, I am working on planning for SQL Always on Availability Group as DR solution. Windows cluster will be extended from primary to DR site , DR site will have standalone SQL instance as second...
View ArticleSQL 2012 AlwaysOn does not allow database update
 I recently tried to get monitoring application Solarwinds to point to the ALwaysON cluster and will get the error"Failed to update because the database " " is read only".  I have tried umpteenth time...
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VLDB log file runs out of space...
Hi,We have a reindex maintenance job that runs each and every day on a VLDB. To optimize the job we decided to split the job in 5 threads. Last saturday it ran for 3h30 hours and then our log file went...
View ArticleSQL Availability Group connection timeout
I have had a couple of instances in which my SQL Server has gone offline and stayed in a RESOLVING state instead of failing over.  In these instances I see the following SQL Server error message:A...
View ArticleSQL Server 2016 & Cluster Active/Active
Hi I researched about SQL 2016 Cluster Active-Active and I read High availability options on https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms190202.aspx but cannot see SQL Cluster with Active/Active nodes....
View Articleconfiguring log shipping in test environment.
I am trying to configure  the log shipping in test environment. I am getting below error when the job runs. Error: Backup failed for Server '***'. (Microsoft.SqlServer.SmoExtended) *** Error: An...
View ArticleRecovering available data from corrupted .MDF file (MSSQL 2005)
Could some one please let me know how to retrieve the available data from the corrupted MS SQL server 2005 file programatically ? Â I've tired with various recovery tools but all my tries are in vain.
View ArticleRecover corrupt mdf file with just one bad table in it
Hi,I have a corrupt mdf file. Error: 824, Severity: 24, State: 2. The corrupt page is (1:1149)DBCC CheckDB ('MyDb', REPAIR_ALLOW_DATA_LOSS) couldn't fix it. I tried all possible options.The db is not...
View ArticleSQL 2014 AG as HA And DR
Hi Team, We are planning to have HA and DR scenario with WSFC across data center. In primary datacenter, SQL will be running as failover with multiple SQL instances. Each SQL instance will have static...
View ArticleAlways On High Availability Multi Subnets
Here is my layout:Node 1 and Node 2 are in one subnet with the witness server.Node 3 is in another subnet.My question is can I have more than 1 witness server to optimize fail-over if the location...
View ArticleActive node lost storage for a while when the passive was rebooted
Hi All,We have a active/passive Windows 2008 R2 cluster, and I installed a SQL 2008 R2 instance on the cluster, Quorum configuration is node and disk majority. Now we had an issue when we did failover....
View ArticleMS SQL DTC with HA and DR scenario using AG
Hi Team, I am planning to have AG setup . On primary we will have 2 node SQL cluster instance with underlined WSFC extended to DR site.At DR we will have SQL standalone running secondary replica. I...
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SQL installation Error - Luns are mount point with subfolders for DB files...
Hi Team,While installing SQL 2014 on cluster node, i am getting attach error. any pointers to resolve this pls.Regards,
View ArticleListener name for conneting primary replica and other queries
Hi Team, I am planning to have below setup, and need some inputs related to AG listeners.In Primary datacenter:2 node WSFC with multiple SQL instances, each running on static port (not on 1433).Shared...
View ArticleCombination of Cluster with Always ON
Hi,Is it possible to create a setup with Primary site having shared drive (SAN) with a failover cluster and Secondary site (cross site - Geo cluster in a separate data center) with sync/async Always ON...
View ArticleDR - SQL Server - VM's
Hi All:We have an discussion with VM team and DB team.Requirement: Configure DR for all the SQL Servers hosted on Virtual Machines.VM Team: They are asking us to configure Mirroring or Logshipping with...
View ArticleWhy Automatic fail over occurring without any crash
I have setup always on availability group with two node cluster.i found even if windows server and sql server is running fine, automatic fail over is occurring.i want automatic fail over to occur only...
View ArticleCluster vs Listener Failover
Hello,I'm seeing some behavior with AlwaysOn that I'm not sure is intended with SQL Server 2012 running on Windows 2012 R2.I have two nodes in an AG (synchronous commit with automatic failover) that...
View ArticleLooking for tutorial for syncing a SQL DB.
Using subscriptions we are getting empty table on the other server. What is the proper way to set up a remote SQL server that is synced?Thanks
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