Validate cluster fails
HiI installed sql server failover cluster successfully. On installation time when I validate cluster it didn't give me any error that time it was success.Now when I click again on 'validate this...
View ArticleClustered MSDTC
Are there any roles/ features that need to be installed before clustering MSDTC when creating a Windows 2012R2/SQL2012 cluster? In 2008 (from Allan Hirt's book) we enabled:Application Server...
View ArticleDefault SQL Native Client Version for "SQLNCLI" Provider
I have been experiencing issues trying to using the "ApplicationIntent=ReadOnly" parameter on devices that have both the version 10.0 and 11.0 provider .dlls installed. Explicitly definingSQLNCLI11...
View ArticleConcurrent Transactions,Disaster Recovery
Hello friends,I have an application on sql server which is used for online reservation.Could you tell me roadmap in order to handle concurrent transaction and disaster recovery plan? I am using sql...
View ArticleDatabase mirroring Enpoints Error
Hi,I am getting below error while i configuring mirroring in my laptop (Local System).Please help me.
View ArticleLog shipping failover
I have Log shipping setup for multi Tera byte database,at some point i want to failover to secondary server and leave it running for a day,then i need to bring back those changes that are made on...
View ArticleBest HADR with the least amount of managment
I have never used Alwayson before. I am setting it up for a company that does not have a dba. So I was wondering if Alwayson requires a lot of administration.Alan
View ArticleDatabase Mirroring and Logshipping
Is it possible to configure Database mirroring and Logshipping on same database?
View ArticleSQL Service Password Change in AlwaysOn Setup
HI,We have a 4 node AlwaysOn cluster with 4 databases (and 4 AGs), and we need to change the password of the SQL Service Account. Would it be a good idea to -Failover all the 4 AGs to 2 of the nodes...
View ArticleHow to Modify listener in SQL Server 2012 always on
How to Modify listener in SQL Server 2012 always on?
View ArticleAlwaysOn Failure : exception 41005
While rebooting the secondary side of the failover cluster, the primary availability group hung with the database "resolving".I found these messages in the SQL server log on the Primary AG. Any idea...
View ArticleSQL daily maintainance and remote backup.
Hi,I have recently inherited a backup environment (commvault) at my new Job, and i have a question about backing up transaction logs.I am responsible for guaranteeing a complete disaster recovery of a...
View ArticleAlwaysOn WSFC
Hi,Do you know if I can install WSFC on existing SQL Server installation to setup the AlwaysOn? or is it better to install the WSFC before SQL Server is installed? or it doesn't matter? I'm going to...
View ArticleSQL server high availability options for disaster.
Please let us know what all the SQL server options we can think of high availability options for disaster.Regards,Ravoor
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 ArticleBuild crashed Sql Server Cluster
How to build crashed Active/Passive or Active/Active from scratch?This is the interview question i faced yesterday?
View ArticleDisaster Recovery ALWAYSON
How do I achieve disaster recovery in the following scenarioWINDOWS 2012MSSQL 2012 ENTSiteA win2012wsfc_PROD with 2 nodes with DB1,DB2, here am able to achieve HA SiteB win2012wsfc_DR with 2 nodes, I...
View ArticleDisaster recovery in SQL 2005 - which one is better ?
Hi All,i am in a slight confusion of implementing a DR solution for one of my banking client. They have a citrix application which depends on a sql server. they cannot have a down time more than 15...
View ArticleSQL2012E: AlwaysOnAvailabilityGroup (2 nodes) & Transactionlog-shipping
Hi there,I am currently checking out the new SQL2012 Server that we are probably going to use for our ERP.This is the planned setup:Server A + Server B in one Failover Cluster + FileShare Quorum...
View ArticleFailover in a disaster situation after a forced quorum
We have Always On availability groups with 3 nodes (Primary + 2 secondary) with Synchronized mode, manual failover on SQL 2012. Today we run a test and we disconnected 2 replicas to allow the primary...
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