SQL AG Synchronization behaviour with dedicated network if public is unavailable
Hi Team, We have 2 node SQL cluster in Primary datacenter and 3rd node in DR with SQL standalone. Separate dedicated NIC is assigned to have replication traffic between Instances part of AG group....
View ArticleBackup / Restore to different server - "Media family is incorrectly formed"
I am very new to using MS SQL Server. I offered to help a friend out not knowing what I was getting into.I have a .bak database, I downloaded and installed MS SQL Server Express 2005 - 9.00.1399.06...
View ArticleAG group stuck at Synchronizing
HiI have a SQL 2014 cluster with 2 nodes, I have an availability group with 6 databases. Nothing is happening in the databases but they are still showing as "synchronizing" on the Secondary node.I have...
View ArticleSQL Server services restarting with error SQL Server component...
Hi Experts,One of our cluster box is on Windows Sever 2008 R2 Enterprise where we have Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (SP2) services on one node and SQL Server 2012 Analysis server on the second node. Its...
View ArticleCEIP
When installing SQL 2016 in a Failover Cluster, the installation role created a cluster role named "SQL Server CEIP (INSTANCE)".Despite the fact that I disabled CEIP for the server, the cluster role...
View Articletransaction log shipping restore with standby failed: log file corrupted
Restore transaction log failed and I get this error: for only 04 no of database in same SQL server, renaming are working...
View ArticleSQL Server Always on but also with SSAS, SSRS, SSIS installed and no shared...
Hi,Does SQL Server support the high availability of all the SQL services with 2 VMs without any shared storage?We plan to install SQL Server, SSAS, SSRS and SSIS on 1 VM and we want to have a...
View ArticleSQL Server 2012 new availibilty group wizard error
hi!I am trying to configure "AlwaysOn Availability Group"I have 2 SQL servers, and i created 2 different names instances on them and also enabled always on availability on both servers.Now i am trying...
View ArticleMinimum required User credentials to setup Alwayson in SQLServer 2012
Hi all What is minimum required User credentails to setup Alwayson in SQLServer 2012 on Windows 2012R2 server ? 1. I mean that the Windows login user who is installing SQLServer and Configuring the...
View ArticleAzure Replica Virtual Network does not populate with SQL 2014 SP2
I am trying to add an Azure Replica to my SQL Server 2014 Enterprise AlwaysOn Availability Group and the Virtual Network is not being populated. This is a known issue for the RTM version of SQL 2014...
View ArticleDelaying a Failover (Automatically)
Is it possible to delay a failover back to an original server? IE, 'once you've failed over to the secondary, wait at least 2 minutes before failing back'?We recently had a issue where there was a...
View ArticleNeed Help
I am installing two node AlwaysOn cluster on two machines. I have already installed sql server 2014 on both machine. Now I am stuck in a strange issue on one of the node. On one server I see following...
View ArticleSQL Server Mirroring Over Internet
Hi,I have two SQL server instances with SQL Server 2016 Enterprise Edition. One is in the local data center and another one is on the cloud. I am able to connect the cloud server throw IP address in...
View ArticleHelp with AlwaysOn
Hello all, I have a primary site with a WFC. All data is replicated via alwayson to secondary site. Data is being replicated asynchronously. The failover/failback process is working as intended. I...
View ArticleMultisite clustering and AGs
Hi all, I have been researching WIN 2016 features and new AGs enhancements lately. Need your guidance on the following requirement and proposed hypothesis for my virtual lab purpose. I'd like to...
View ArticleSecondary databases stuck in recovery mode
Just inherited a company with a HA group for a sharepoint site that had a failover way back in Aug, 6 of the databases have not been syncing, however got those to start syncing back up. The problem is...
View Articlepreferred replica is not reflecting on Quering
Hello All,Seeing a strange issue, when i tried to change Prefered replica from Secondary to Primary, and onrunning below query it is showing 0 on both the servers. i tried to refevert the change back...
View ArticleLooking for the best Always On test battery possible?
Hi there,we are setting up our DR between different DC is ongoing and we need to test from the scratch our Always On silo.our schema is the following:Datacenter APhysical big monster live 1...
View ArticleSQL 2012 AG failover not changing possible owner during manual failover
Hi, I/my group have been using AG's in production since CTP1 of SQL Server 2012. We're very well versed in AG behaviors but we have 1 environment that's picked up an odd misbehavior that does not...
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