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  • RE: Hi i am a sql dba.In my organizastion i am only the who will take care sql servers.2 servers are going to production within 2 days.

    in my opinion and experience, management who are lacking the key understandings are the real issue. They dont necessarily need to be a DBA themselves but they should have a...

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  • RE: Restart SQL Server service on a cluster environment

    wow this is really going off topic now, the OP only asked about cluster resources failing over from node to node 😀

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  • RE: Restart SQL Server service on a cluster environment

    Mike Hinds (8/6/2010)


    Perry Whittle (8/6/2010)


    Mike Hinds (8/5/2010)


    but manually bringing either online does nothing for the other.

    then you do not have your dependencies set correctly!

    see my attached screenshot for details

    Thanks for...

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  • RE: Restart SQL Server service on a cluster environment

    Mike Hinds (8/5/2010)


    but manually bringing either online does nothing for the other.

    then you do not have your dependencies set correctly!

    see my attached screenshot for details

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  • RE: Memory settings of SQL instances in failover cluster

    Even with locked pages the OS can still ask ever so nicely for SQL to free some memory it just can't force it to as the buffer pool pages are...

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  • RE: Memory settings of SQL instances in failover cluster

    With locked pages in memory sql server will never release below the min memory setting. It is important to set both the min and max memory when using locked pages.

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  • RE: Restart SQL Server service on a cluster environment

    Bringing the SQL Server agent online first will automatically bring SQL Server up due to the dependencies between these resources 😉

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  • RE: SQL 2008 Cluster Disk Layout

    That's an excellent link. IMHO anybody who hooks a SQL Server system up to a storage system without completing IO tests needs their brain looked at 😀

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  • RE: setting up a 2 node cluster

    Thank you, I could possibly add the witness setup to the VMWare based doc but I don't have or use Hyper-V.

    Its very easy, just configure the cluster as usual using...

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  • RE: SQL 2008 Cluster Disk Layout

    neither, in my opinion RAID group 2 is the weak point. I would opt for multiple smaller arrays!

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  • RE: setting up a 2 node cluster

    Robert

    remember as you are implementing a cluster you will inherently have more than 2 machines on the network (a cluster is dependant upon DNS and AD).

    You cluster the 2...

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  • RE: SQL 2008 Cluster Disk Layout

    OK, taking RAID group2 from your diagram link above you have 1 RAID 10 group carved up to service

    TEMPDB data

    user DB data

    Backup data

    Sharing storage amongst 3 LUNs will likely not...

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  • RE: Single node SQL Server 2005 upgrade to SQL Server 2008 fails

    sivaprasad (7/28/2010)


    Environment:

    Single Node cluster

    SQL Server 2005 with default instance

    O.S: Windows 2003 with KB937444, Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 & Windows Installer 4.5

    The upgrade of SQL 2005 cluster...

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  • RE: SQL Server Clustering SQL 2000/2005/2008 Dependencies between Cluster Groups

    Jamie Wormald (8/3/2010)


    The way I understand it only one server if live at any one time and this server is the one with access to the quorum drive.

    is this...

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  • RE: SQL 2008 Cluster Disk Layout

    for an OLTP system shared storage is a bad idea!

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