SQL Server Backup versus Virtual Machine Backup. Is the virtual machine...
My SQL Server is hosted on a virtual machine (VMWare). A backup strategy has been suggested whereby we backup the Virtual Machine every night. Daily backups are all that is required.Is the virtual...
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Hi Team:As of now we have two physical cluster nodes which are physical and now we are planning to move VM's. Can any one suggest me Microsoft Recommendation for Migrating Clusterd environment to...
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 ArticleExclusive access could not be obtained because the database is in use
Hi I am trying to use sql server 2005 management stodio to restore a database. But I got this error message: Exclusive access could not be obtained because the database is in use Anyone know how to...
View ArticleHow to recover from database consistency errors?
I have a SQL server cluster 2005. Due to the broken of SAN storage's controller and disks, one of my SharePoint content DB has corrupted and has been causing numerous error to the SharePoint. I have...
View ArticleLog shipping is not restoring log files ata particular time
Hi,I have configured log shipping and it restores all the log files upto a particular time after which it throws error and not in consistent sate. I tried deleting and again configuring log shipping...
View ArticleAlwaysOn Availability Groups - Can we have just Primary replica?
Hi all,We are looking at a future deployment of this technology in SQL 2012 for Production. Would sit on a 2-site WSFC.The question has come up: is it feasible to create a 'single-node' copy of such a...
View ArticleHow to check when database on primary server switch to secondary server and...
Dear : I am new beginner on sql server 2012 always on. Our site had met an accident. It was the primary database server was unavailable and database was switch tosecondary server. Many users...
View ArticleHow to upgrade an Active & Active sql cluster?
Hi Experts,How to upgrade an Active & Active sql cluster? Is there any difference in upgrade for sql 2005 Active-Active cluster and sql 2008 R2 Active - Active cluster?Thanks in advance.
View ArticleSQL Server 2012 Always ON Users Sync
Team,We have a development cluster which is configured on Windows Server 2012. Recently we had an issue where the cluster failover happened momentarily and the roles were interchanged wrt to AlwaysON....
View ArticleQuestion on sql cluster
Hi, On a cluster, we have 2 networks i.e private network and public network. Private network is used for cluster communication(LooksAlive and IsAlive checks) and Public network is used for client...
View ArticleFailover scenarios for AlwaysOn
What are the failover scenarios/situations in which the failover happens when the Databases are configured with ALways-On?In our situation windows failover cluster server node 1 fails over to node 2...
View ArticleActive/Active Cluster SQL Server 2008 R2 connectivity problems
Hi,We have a 2 node Actice/Active Cluster as described here:SqlServer Instance 1 = MSSQLSERVERSqlServer Instance 2 = Instance2As we know when we want to connect to the second instance, our web.config...
View ArticleSQL Server 2012- Backup successful, but showing below error. Can anyone help...
Date 7/23/2014 9:00:00 PMLog Job History (Full SQL Backup.Subplan_1) Step ID 1Server CINF-APPS-SVR\CINFSPOINTJob Name...
View ArticleWhere to run DBCC CHECKDB and INDEX REBUILD in SQL Server 2012 ?
Hello all! We have recently upgraded to SQL Server 2012 with two replicas(PRIMARY and SECONDARY). As we all know that, the transactions occurring on PRIMARY replica would replicate to SECONDARY/all...
View ArticleBackup of Always On technology
Hi,I have configured SQL server Always On in my sql server.And the backup prefernence is : Prefer Secondary.The question is ,I am not able to take backup on Seconday node in the availablity group.I...
View ArticleSQL Differential clone data from one server to another daily
I am hoping to get a really good solution to this. I currently Have a 2 node active/passive cluster environment. I am running SQL 08 R2. I just purchased a completely new box and installed SQL...
View ArticleStrange SQL server behavior running under domain account in shared intance...
Can start SQL server engine through WFC role configured as a shared instanceI'm using SQL 2012 and Windows 2012 Server. After 3 days of investigation I've figured out that SQL Server role can be...
View ArticleManual vs scripted restores for SQL DBA's
I recently read an article that suggested scripted restores are the best way to go. Essentially the script I saw is completely automated, it goes into the backup directory and restores your full, then...
View ArticleSync or ASync for a Data Warehouse environment?
We have a 7 TB DW environment that we're using High Availability on. Almost all of the data is bulk loaded nightly/ weekly. We've been running this in Sync-commit mode, but lately the Transaction Log...
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