Add SQL HA
Hi,I am from Spain, excuse me my bad EnglishI have a SQL 2014 Enterprise in production mounted with multiple instances on a Windows 2012 r2. This SQL is in stand-alone mode without any HA or FTThis...
View ArticleSQL Server 2014 alwayson will support Peer to peer replication ?
Hi all,I have zone1,Zone2 (Different data centres) We installed SQL Server 2014 and we configured AG in each Zones. Now as per requirements we have to configure Peer to peer replication between the...
View ArticleBackups failing on alwayson with "Directory could not be found error"
I am using Olla Hallengren's scripts to configure backups on a 2 node always on setup. A separate domain service account was created and access for it was given to the file share where the backups are...
View ArticleHow to resume log shipping/mirroring after the secondary database was open
Hi All,I have a tricky question to ask, one of our application will need to migrate from SQL2005 to SQL2008, the target server and SQL 2008 have been installed. To minimize downtime, we can setup log...
View ArticleAlways on ReadOnly Secondry Node RowVersioning
Hi All, Had an incident on a production box last night in which TempDB filled up on a ReadOnly Secondary node within Always on Group. It became full because of the Row Versioning which happens as part...
View ArticleFile share witness
I have read that Disk witness is better option compared to File share witness. Consider a scenario of a two-node cluster: node A and node B. If Node A goes down, then Node B carries on running and...
View ArticleQuorum witness failed in cluster
How the cluster/AOAG will work if disk witness failed.How to retrieve the disk back?
View ArticleWhat witness we have to use for AWS.
Can someone let me know What type of witness we have to use for AWS from below?1.Disk Witness2.File Share witness3.Cloud Witness
View ArticleHow to conifgure SQL 2016 for WIndows 2016 WorkGroup Clusters
Hi,I wanted to configure Windows 2016 Workgroup Clusters using SQL 2016. I googled and find below information.It turns out that only Availability Groups are supported on workgroup clusters in 2016. SQL...
View ArticleCluster Error: The computer 'nodeB' is joined to a cluster
I am trying to create two node windows cluster but run into some IP issue and cluster creation was failed. AD guys has resolved IP issue now and when I am trying to create cluster is it taking huge...
View ArticleRESOLVING to PRIMARY Status of Databases in AAG
All,I setup a Database Alert that sends an alert when the failover (19406) happens. I also have setup an Alert (1480) when one of the databases (TESTDB) in the AG becomes PRIMARY.I could set up a Job...
View ArticleCorrupt one Tr log backup in both servers primary & secondary in my log...
Hi all,Corrupt one Tr log backup in both servers primary & secondary in my log shipping SQL Server 2012. what are the alternative solution.Note : no differential backup Note : available full...
View ArticleSQL Server 2016 Availability Group DISCONNECTED replica
Hello,i would like to ask you for help experts, because i have exhausted all options and ways i remembered or found.We have 2 servers (each 64 CPU, 1 TB RAM, SSD disks) SQL 2016 (13.0.2164) deployed...
View ArticleBACKUP DB FILES TO AZURE
Hi All,I would like to know if it is possible to backup all the database backup filesdirectly to Azure cloud storage, As I am new to Azure storage I'a not sure about the type of storage used.If it is...
View ArticleCan an MDF file with error 5172 "File size property is incorrect" be manually...
I have an MDF file with corruption in the Header.The error i am receiving with any attempt to attach the file is The header for file ....\MSSQL\DATA\xxxx_data.mdf' is not a valid database file header....
View ArticleDeploy SQL agent jobs & Integration services dtsx
Hi,I have an application that uses a SQL database, some DTSX's and some sql jobs (via sql server agent).Now I need to move things to a SQL 2012 alwaysOn.I'm used to create my jobs in only one server...
View ArticleSQL Resource failure on DR site
Dear Support,We are facing issue while failover the SQL resources from main site to DR site.Below the detail of our current environment.Node 1 (main site) Two resourcesNode 2 (main site) Two...
View Article2016 Availability Groups failing over constantly
We have Availability Groups in 2012, 2014 and now a couple in 2016. The two we have in 2016 failover several times per day. The earlier versions do not. All are on server version Windows 2012R2.In the...
View ArticleBasic Availitbility Group On Azure VM Connection Issue
Hello,I have a basic availability group on SQL Server 2016 Standard with 2 nodes. Here are the names of my nodes & cluster:BAG1BAG2BAGClusterI can get the availability group setup and it can...
View ArticleService Broker up but not processing after AG failover
We have a 2012 server with SQL Server 2012 sp2 set up with and availability group. If we fail the AG to the B node, service broker comes up, but does not process. All messages sit in the queue.We have...
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