Transaction Log Backup and Shrink Database Order in Maintenance Plan
Hi,I found pretty interesting Maintenance Plan's behaviour:My goal is obvious is - to reduce the size of transaction log, I'm able to achieve it only if I have following sequence in Maintenance Plan:1....
View ArticleSQL 2008 R2 2 node cluster isn't listening on 2nd network added after...
Windows Server 2008 R2 /SQL 2008 R2 2 node cluster was originally configured to be connected to one private network. Later the client requested the ability to access the system via their corporate...
View Article2012 SQL AlwaysOn Availability Group - JDBC re-connection not happening in...
Hi There,Having some problem with MultiSubNet AG failover re-connection using SQL JDBC driver 4. Details given below.SETUP:We have a three node 2012 Windows Server Cluster, on top it we 2012 SQL Sever...
View ArticleSQL 2014 Clustered with CSV
I just built up a test two node clustered environment with Server 2012R2. Everything seems to be functioning, however, the default file paths seem inaccessible within SQL tools. Meaning, if I try to...
View ArticleWhich secondary becomes primary if all replicas are synch'd with...
Hi All,Question: Which secondary gets promoted to primary on auto-failover if all secondaries are synch'd and configured for automatic failover and all replicas availability modes are set to...
View ArticleConfigure SQL 2012 AlwaysOn with current SQL 2012
Hello,Currently I have SQL 2012 SP1 stand-alone already install and host SharePoint 2013 database, I'm planning to configure SQL high availability with AlwaysOn feature, The question is Can I install...
View ArticleEnabling Log Shipping for databases.
I have enable Log Shipping on 1st server which is SQL 2008 STD 64 bit. 2nd Server is SQL 200 8R2 Web i have enable the log shipping for 1 database and its get created successfully on 2 server but its...
View ArticleSQL installation
There are the details i got from client: Based on these details i have to install sql server. Systme DB Path: X:\DATA\MSSQL\MSSQL10_50.CITXSQL\MSSQL\DATA\master.mdf...
View ArticleHardware Requirement for SQL Server 2012 Cluster
Hi All,We are going to share System Requirement document with the customer and one of the technical staff from Customer has request us to provide Microsoft Disk space requirement at least for below 2...
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Unable to Find SQL Agent
Hi There,We are using SQL Server 2012 and we would like to do create schedule for the SQL Backup. As I know, the backup is performed by the SQL Agent. However, we can't find where the SQL agent is....
View ArticleUse service accounts at AlwaysOn Availability Groups
Valued readers,We have a AlwaysOn Availability Group consisting of 2 SQL servers. Both servers have their own service account for the sql services. I read in all sorts of documents on the internet that...
View ArticleUpgrade Microsoft SQL Server 2012 RTM AlwaysOn Availability Groups to SQL...
Dears,Any help how to Upgrade Microsoft SQL Server 2012 RTM AlwaysOn Availability Groups to SQL Server 2012 SP1I tried to upgrade the secondary node using this SP1 Setup...
View ArticleSQL Server cluster uninstallation
Getting below issue while uninstalling SQL server 2008: error "sql server failover cluster name couldn't find the cluster resource"
View ArticleDR testing with Always On
I have an Always On secondary replica of a production DB. We need to perform DR testing against it which requires it to be read-write during the test. When the test is over (perhaps takes 1 hour) I...
View ArticleSSIS Jobs Failover in HA
please help me with the below query?We have 2 physical servers (Server1 and Server2). Both the physical servers SSIS is installed. Jobs and Packages are running under server1 ,If any failure in the...
View Articlesteps to change SQL Server Cluster IP
Hi,I have set-up 2 Node SQL Server 2012 High Availability Server and installed SharePoint 2013. Now our systems IPs going to be changed.Tell what what steps need to be taken, what steps to be take care...
View ArticleSQL 2014 Always On Distributed Transactions
We are planning on upgrading to SQL 2014 but we have many cross database/same server or remote server (selects, updates, inserts, deletes). We would like to use Always on read only secondaries to...
View ArticleHow to RAID my disks in this scenario?
Hi all,I have two instances of SQL Server on two different physical servers. The SAN admin has dedicated 8 disks to my SQL Servers.Now I have two choices to configure these disks:Scenario A: Make a...
View ArticleApplication hangs and sql log shows "I/O is frozen" for minutes until "I/O...
VSS is being invoked to backup our SQL Server 2012 databases throughout the day. Occasionally, maybe once every few days, the application using the database hangs for a few minutes and coincidentally...
View ArticleAlways On: Detect from client which replica is active
Since the client simply connects to the listener and gets an IP, is there a way through either the client object model or a query which I can use from the client to determine which replica is on the...
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