Always on - active/active sql server 2012 cluster
Hi all, Is it possible to have always on configured on active-active cluster (i.e 2 servers and 2 failover sql cluster instances on them). Want to use one instance for db operations and other one for...
View ArticleSQL server 2012 process terminated unexpectedly.
Hello,I have a server that SQL services will not start. I check the event logs and found the below error: Faulting application name: sqlservr.exe, version: 2011.110.3128.0, time stamp: 0x50deadad...
View ArticleIs this supported with just licensing one machine?
Working on setting up a new SQL server 2012 Standard box, we are only licensed for 4 cores with SA. Putting this on a new Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V 2 node cluster. Was considering making use of...
View ArticleTransaction log Shrinking
Hi My ldf file has grown to 56gb, I am trying to shrink the ldf file using the below command :DBCC FREEPROCCACHE DBCC DROPCLEANBUFFERS DBCC FREESYSTEMCACHE ('ALL') DBCC FREESESSIONCACHE DBCC SHRINKFILE...
View ArticleAlwaysOn High Availability - Cannot Connect to Listener
Hello,I have created an AlwaysOn high Availability Set and created a listener. The issue I am having is that I cannot connect to the listener when using SQL Server Management Studio. This does not work...
View ArticleRestore Backup (.bak) file to a different database on the same instance of...
This should be a real easy question. Its more for reassurance but here goes. I am testing our backup procedure and I have backed up our primary production database. I want to now take that backup file...
View ArticleDatabase in Suspect Mode in SQL Server 2000 Log Shipping Environment
Hi AllWe have movement of SQL Server 2000 at physical level. We have disable jobs and stop Agent and SQL Server services.After moved the server we have started the server and then start SQL Server 2000...
View ArticleAvailability group replication
I need some assistance in the following...1) I would like understand how the replication across Availability replicas happen? does it use Log shipping internally for asynchronous replicas? Log shipping...
View ArticleRecover SQL 2008 Cluster to a single server
Hi,DR question based on recovering a SQL server which is currently a member of a cluster. We have a customer that has a physical SQL 2008 fail-over cluster. Naturally if the active node fails the...
View ArticleTransaction Log Restoration
Hi,I have taken a full backup and subsequent transaction log backup.I was successfull in restoring the Full backup to another server (with NO recovery), but when I try restoring the transaction log...
View ArticleFail Over Cluster(want to create an active instance on a passive node)
Hi Experts,I already set up an active/passive cluster. I used machine 01 to be active and machine 02 to be passive.Now I want to install an active instance on machine 02 and add machine 01 as a passive...
View ArticleA couple questions about setting up Always On availabitilty group in VM lab
I've already setup Domain controller (DC1) and 2 other servers (SQL03, SQL04) as members of that domain. All servers run Windows Server 2012. Nothing is installed and no roles are configured on SQL03...
View ArticleMultiple IP's (from 2 different networks) on a single SQL 2005 Cluster
Hello there,I'm currently building up a SQL 2005 Active/Standby cluster in a DMZ. I have three NIC's in each server.Each NIC is connected to a different network:192.168.100.1 is the public NIC 10.0.0.1...
View ArticleSQL Cluster 2008 R2 Geocluster configuration with 2 VIP
Hi All,If anyone has configure 2008 R2 Geo-cluster accross database center in different subnet. I'm interested to know whether is it possible we can cofigure cluster with 2 VIP and both VIP in...
View ArticleMy fail-over cluster is down on both the nodes.Unable to bring the SQL...
Hi,In my Failover Manager both both the nodes are showing down & SQL Server services is stopped.I tried manually starting the cluster services but it failed. I think my cluster is broken now how i...
View ArticleMoving SQL .MDF and .NDF Files
HI i need to plan over a tera byte of data files move to a new location,MDF files is 800 Gigand 5 .NDF files are 300 Gig in total.so there are total 6 data files,what the best approach to move all of...
View Articleadd IPv6 to a running failover cluster
HiI have a sql failover cluster running win2k8 R2 and SQL 2008 it was built around IPv4 the instance listens on IPv4 cluster IP address ( virtual IP)I rescently got a request that there will be servers...
View ArticleSQL 2005 cluster rejects SQL logins when in failed over state
When SQL 2005 SP4 on Windows 2003 server cluster is failed over from Server_A to Server_B, it rejects all SQL Server logins. domain logins are OK. The message is "user is not associated with a trusted...
View ArticleSQL 2012 Availability Group Connectivity
Good afternoon, Hope your well. We have currently setup SQL 2012 on a Windows Server Failover Cluster, spanning across multiple Datacentres. We have two Nodes in each DataCentre (DC1 and DC2), and a...
View ArticleAny experiences when using AAG in a DataWarehouse environment
Hi,I was wondering if there some people out there that have some experience with AAG in a Data Warehouse environment.By Data Warehouse i mean SQL Server instances with a lot of data and a lot of batch...
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