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  • RE: SQL 2012 failover cluster ideas - AlwaysON

    Perry Whittle (1/25/2015)


    Levels 1 to 4 detail the requirements for a windows server failover cluster, this forms the basis of either an FCI or an AlwaysOn Availability group setup.

    Level 5...

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  • RE: SQL 2012 failover cluster ideas - AlwaysON

    sorry there's been so many posts here I'm lost in the myre now.

    Do you want to deploy an FCI only?

    If yes leave part 4 you don't need it

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  • RE: Re-establish mirroring after DR test

    Calvin Duffy (1/29/2015)


    No full backup was taken after the mirroring broke.

    If a full backup has occurred on the principal since mirroring broke you're stuck with re initialising mirroring unless...

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  • RE: Advice for cross-site clustering

    Ozzmodiar (1/29/2015)


    Sorry Perry, I dropped the ball on terminology there. It will be multiple AG's, not listeners. I had it in my head that the groups were 1...

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  • RE: CONVERT BYTES TO MB script?

    select SizeBytes, SizeBytes / 1024 As Megabytes

    from

    TESTTABLE

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  • RE: SQL 2012 failover cluster ideas - AlwaysON

    you don't have an FCI to integrate so skip that, the portion that shows how to create an AO group will be relevant though

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  • RE: Re-establish mirroring after DR test

    So, has a full backup been taken on the principal since the mirroring broke?

    Use this query against the principal and then the mirror to ascertain if it has or not

    select...

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  • RE: Advice for cross-site clustering

    an Availability group can only have one primary read\write database, The remainder are readable secondaries!

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  • RE: CONVERT BYTES TO MB script?

    ncodd (1/29/2015)


    I need a simple script that will convert this field to MB & round up.

    Convert it to what?

    just divide it by 1024 will give whole MBs. Are...

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  • RE: Largest MS SQL Server Databases

    we have one here over 8TB in size and growing

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  • RE: Re-establish mirroring after DR test

    Calvin Duffy (1/27/2015)


    The mirroring type is "High Performance (asynchronous)". There are no witness server(s). Need to write to the database (Mirroring db not the primary db). Can't do role switching....

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  • RE: Advice for cross-site clustering

    so for a given AO group and database, all 6 instances will be replicas in that group?

    Which server have you reserved as your primary replica?

    Why sooo many listeners?

    Which site is...

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  • RE: Advice for cross-site clustering

    keep an eye on the size of the version store too

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  • RE: Backup to clear the transaction log

    GilaMonster (1/29/2015)


    In simple recovery a checkpoint truncates the log.

    And even then there are drivers behind this, it won't necessarily truncate on every checkpoint

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  • RE: Migration of AlwaysON database 2012 to 2014

    muthukkumaran Kaliyamoorthy (1/29/2015)


    Perry Whittle (1/29/2015)


    muthukkumaran Kaliyamoorthy (1/28/2015)


    Since it's already a GEO cluster 4 node in USA (6 SQL instances)+ 2 node in China (2 SQL instances).

    All 6 nodes part of...

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