The Connection to the Primary Replica is not Active
In this article, I’m going to talk an issue that I found when joining replica or database on secondary replica to availability group.
2020-01-31 (first published: 2017-04-17)
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Ganapathi varma Chekuri
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Calculating DTU's for Azure SQL Database
This calculator will help you determine the number of DTUs for your existing SQL Server database(s) as well as a recommendation of the minimum performance level and service tier that you need before you migrate to Azure SQL Database.
2018-02-14
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Restore a Database with CDC Enabled
In this post, I’m going to talk about an issue that I found while restoring a backup of CDC enabled database to different SQL instance. You may receive below warning message that includes information about the cause of the warning, which can help you to resolve the issue.
2018-02-13
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Configure Read Only Routing
The advantage of Setting the readable secondary as Read-Intent Only will allow the secondary server to serve the read-only workload only if the connection string of the application contains Application Intent=Readonly parameter.
2018-02-05
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Resolve Network Binding Order Warning in failover cluster
In this article, I’m going to show a procedure to resolve an issue that I found while running cluster validation report. you may receive below warning message that includes information about the cause of the warning, which can help you to resolve the issue.
2017-07-20
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Step by Step Configuring a Dedicated Network for Availability Group
In this article, I will show a procedure to isolate the replication traffic from the public network.
2017-04-10
10,499 reads
Step by Step Configuring AlwaysOn with Log Shipping
In this article, I will show you a procedure to combine SQL Server AlwaysOn with logshipping and to make log-shipping to work even in case of failovers between availability replicas in primary site.
2017-04-03
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Performance Dashboard Error: Could not find stored procedure
In this article, you will learn how to troubleshoot error when you try to launch the main Dashboard Report.
2017-02-27
1,987 reads
vCenter Server fails to start, Purge and Shrink Vcenter SQL Database
In this article, you will learn how to troubleshoot If your vCenter Server fails to start and and manually purge the Vcenter database if required.
2017-02-16
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Fix Commvault Backup Failures After an Upgrade
In this article, you will learn how to troubleshoot backup failures in SQL Server 2016 when you run using commvault backup tool
2017-02-09
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Encoding URLs
I have this data in a SQL Server 2025 table:
CREATE TABLE Response ( ResponseID INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT ResponsePK PRIMARY KEY , ResponseVal VARBINARY(5000) ) GOIf I want to get a value from this table that I can add to a URL in a browser, which of these code items produces a result I can use? See possible answers