database corruption issue
HiI have been learning about database corruption with my friend and we have been going through Steve Steadman's corruption quizzes but I do not seem to be as good at it like my friend is. My friend...
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Hi Guys,I have been trying to battle this issue for quite some time now with no luck, I have some ideas as per the Microsoft articles but I need some help.I have 2 Windows 2012 R2 VM's running on...
View ArticleSQL Log Shrinking on high availability on Primary location
Dear All,We have an issue with our SQL Server Log file shrinking. When we try to shrink out Logs We have to disconnect the servers from the high availability group and join again. Unless it will not...
View ArticleSQL 2012 Failover Cluster Installation error
I am installing SQL Serveer 2012 on a Windows Server 2008 R2 Cluster. I start the installation, and choose "New SQL Server Failover Cluster installation" Everything is going along fine until i get to...
View ArticleMultiple SCSI Controllers or not in Hyper-V
I am running 170 VMs on a Windows Server 2016 Datacenter 3 node Hyper-V Cluster connected via Fibre Channel to an all Flash Storage Array. I will be creating a new VM for a SQL Server that we are...
View ArticleLogshipping Job
We are migration sql server 2008 R2 to 2016.using logshipping.What happens if i am not disable LS_backup job in 2008 after 2016 becomes online?
View ArticleVarious databases show "In Recovery" briefly after failover
Hi all,We have a 2 node SQL 2008 R2 SP3 Standard cluster. When failing the SQL role from one node to the other, I am seeing a number of databases showing briefly as "In Recovery". The databases come...
View ArticleAvailability Groups Add Azure Replica SQL 2016 SP1 on server 2016
As part of enhancing our SQL resilience we are intending to trial Availability Groups from on Premise to Azure.I have created an on Premise VM running Server 2016 running SQL 2016 SP1 developer...
View ArticleAlways on connection monitoring either listener or hostname
Hi I am looking to trace connection which are coming to Always on server. I am looking for an information how clients are accessing the Always on DBs whether through host name for listener...
View ArticleCan not select Secondary Node as backup option for Availability group
We are trying to change where backups should occur and all options are greyed out on the primary node, anyone else experience this?
View ArticleAlwayson read-only secondary is not accessible via Listener
Hi Gurus, I setup a 2 nodes Alwayson on Windows 2016 and SQL Server 2017. Everything work fine except when I try to connect readonly secondary through listener using "ApplicationIntent=Readonly" it...
View ArticleWhy Replication Monitor can't connect to current Primary Replica after...
I have configured replication on Always On , configured redirect publisher. All is working well. However after failover if I bring prior primary sql instance offline, Replication monitor will not work....
View ArticleShrinking Log Files - SQL Server 2012 Always On Availability Group
Dears,I do have 2 SQL Servers (2012) on a Always On Availability Group.How can i make a maintenance plan to shrink the Log files?Should i need to make a maintenance plan to take the DB backup first and...
View ArticleQuery to check if Secondary Replica has 'Create Database' right
Hi,I am thinking of using autoseeding for our AlwaysOn. According to BOL (...
View ArticleIs my Data Base Recoverable?
Hi Fellow DBA's I have a rather sad situation here and i hope i can get some assistance here on this forum. I have a DB that has been failing to back up since September, we only realised this late in...
View ArticleAlwayOn Monitoring via Alerts - Getting Lots of Emails
Hello,I have recently setup AlwaysOn in SQL Server 2017 and has been in Production for several weeks now. Everything is working fine. I'm currently in the process of setting up SQL Alerts to monitor...
View ArticleColumn Encryption for a database in an Always On Availability group
We created a master key with password etc, like this article:https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/security/encryption/encrypt-a-column-of-data?view=sql-server-2014I created the...
View ArticleFailover to secondary node not happen and primary DB is not accessible
Hi All, I had one of the production issue today morning in share point database.The primary node tried to failover to secondary node but unfortunately not happen. Most of the db's were inaccessible in...
View ArticleGetting error while installation of SQL Server fail-over cluster
I am Installing SQL Server failover cluster, I have two nodes SQL1 and SQL2 I am installing on SQL1 and getting below errors about services, Services are running with on SQL2could you advice
View ArticleConfiguring multiple Basic Availability groups
Hi All,We have MSSQL Std. 2017 edition and have configured 4 Basic Availability groups in it.There is a front end application which will connect to these 4 databases in AG.Is it possible to connect the...
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