good article

usually the error log will identify virtual machines as the instance starts, look for the hardware info

Bharatvip (5/11/2016)

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We are moving 6 production databases from one physical server to another. The drive numbers and names on the new and old servers do not match up, but we...

you can run an inplace upgrade, install passive nodes then failover and complete remaining nodes.

Clean install and migration would be my preference

why not just use a clean VM and backup and restore the database and the certificate. Having your prod certificate on a dev database server is questionable itself, your IT...

sounds like you're using DHCP assigned addresses, configure reservations for the addresses

is this the first ever full backup taken for this database?

copy_only does not interfere with log backups, this option prevents the differential base lsn from being incremented and stops an intermediate full backup from breaking the differential backup chain, logs...

Arjun SreeVastsva (4/25/2016)

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Hi,

i am trying to move system files in cluster server my alter database modify file command but i am getting below error message Can any one help me...

ashwan (4/26/2016)

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hi,

could any one know how to add and remove tempdb datafile to tempdb.

reason. we need allocate more space for tempdb and remove in few days time.

how do we...

Tava (4/25/2016)

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I have a question from a security point of view & everyone seems to have different opinions. so not sure if people understand this exactly.

I have an SQL Login...

Doug Simmons (4/26/2016)

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When I moved my database to an existing sql server 2008, I ran this script on the old server :

BACKUP MASTER KEY TO FILE = N'path_to_file'

ENCRYPTION BY PASSWORD...

nice article on enabling RG

WhiteLotus (4/17/2016)

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Hi guys ,

I notice my transaction log grew bigger starting from last week . I checked the log backup at that time was not running half day for all...

Is this a cluster on virtual machines?

Not really relevant in Windows 2008 R2 clusters, the heartbeat connection...