How many databases can be configured in Log Shipping from a single instance?
Hi All,SQL Server 2012: Out of all the databases in the instance we have a requirement in which we need to maintain a high availability for the databases around (128). Our team believed log shipping...
View ArticleCan SQL server 2014 instance be introduced into SQL server 2012 clustering
Hello, everyone,We have SQL server clustering set up in place (it is actually windows clustering), I am wondering if it is possible to introduce SQL server 2014 instance into this clustering. Please...
View ArticleSQL Server FCI+AG solution, is MSDTC Supported
we have a 2 node FCI cluster and we ware planning to upgrade it to windows server 2012 and SQL server 2012, 3 node WSFC cluster, with 2 nodes participating in FCI and 1 node on DR site which will have...
View ArticleMove SQL 2012 VM to Different Location
Hello,Good Day!i have Two SQL 2012EE Node , it is installed in VCE Vblook 100 , now i want to move it to another hardware my question is " How i can i achive this task by move Windows 2012 R2 Cluster...
View ArticleMultisite clustering failover scenarios
Hi,I have a two node in a Multisite cluster on Windows Server 2012. On it, I have SQL Server 2012 Clustered Instance.While doing a failover testing, when I shut down the active node, I am able to...
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Cannot create AlwaysOn High Availability Group
Hello!I'm succesfully created 2 HA Groups on test environments but when i trying to create them on production, getting stuck with errorCannot bring the WSFC resource online (error code 5018):I...
View ArticleCreate mantainence plan on a always on system
Hi all, I am new to always on management, I would like to know if exist a best practice for configuring maintenance plan on a alwayson system (two nodes) or is just running the maintenance plan wizard...
View ArticleDatabase Auditing with Always On
We have implemented Availability Groups and it brought up a question. We previously used database auditing to see which objects are used in production. Now with the AG we can have an audit on the...
View ArticleError while executing script on log shipping secondary server.
Hi All,We tried to configure log shipping using script generated by GUI and when executed specific script which is meant for secondary server the database is not created and threw below error.Msg...
View ArticleHow do I know my db is in log-truncate mode?
Hi All,I have a db running under simple recovery mode. I am really pressed at disk space, and we have a long running script that keeps failing with "no space left on the device" error. I noticed the...
View ArticleMissing access for databases on MS SQL server 2012 database engine
Hi, i have trouble with my MS SQL server 2012 database engine. I can't access to all databases on server by error:"Cannot resolve the collation conflict between "SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS" and...
View ArticleAlwaysOn on DB Cluster
Hi All,During our internal discussion we have a plan to configure AlwaysOn but as per our existing environment I have few questions to take this proposal to the client.Existing environment: SQL Server...
View ArticleRecommended practices when using a Shared/FTP Drive on the servers containing...
Hello, we are currently using 2, 2014 SQL Server Enterprise Servers that contain our AlwaysOn High Availability groups. Server One is the primary replica ,Server 2 is the secondary replica, not being...
View ArticleLossless manual failover after quorum restored not possible?
Our quorum was lost then brought back online (i think). Why couldn't we perform a lossless manual failover? Our config has a primary and a synchronous replica and a 3rd fileshare witness. We had an...
View ArticleLog shipping
how many number of secondary servers can be there while performing log shipping.(is there any limit)?
View ArticlePrimary log file is not available for database 'TestDB' (7:0). The log cannot...
Hi All,We are doing restoring in a different data center and keep sending log backups and restore from there.Recently we want to bring a new volume to the sql server and move all databases to the new...
View ArticleVSS Writer SqlServerWriter fails with 3rd party backup solution.
I am having some troubles with the Sql VSS writer. I am using a 3rd party backup solution, and it is failing because each time a snapshot is attempted the writer (SqlServerWriter) fails with a...
View ArticleHow do I connect to secondary on a multi-subnet availability group?
I have multi-subnet in two location ( Boston and Atl)Boston (Primary):2 physical servers: 1) BosProdSQL1 2) BosProdSQL2 Installed SQL Server as named instanceATL (Secondary):2 physical servers: 1)...
View ArticleHA and DR strategy: REPLICATION , LOG-SHIPPING or BOTH
Hello Experts, I need a advise on one of our projects where: We have 3 SQL database servers A, B and C: A is the live production server with around 200 users with a database of size 1.5 TB hosted. B...
View ArticleAlwaysOn
Hi,We configured always on in 2012 in synchronous mode. In last two days multiple times fail-over happen.Now where can i check how many times and at what time fail-over happen? I didn't find this...
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