High availability solution
HiPlease suggest best high availability disaster recovery solution for sqlserver2016 standard edition on windows server 2016 standard edition.Is the Logshipping best solution ??Thank you.
View ArticleSSMS 17.6 connecting so SSIS 2016
I am getting an error when trying to Integration Services using ssms 17.6 (The specified service does not exist as an installed service). New install of SQL2016 and verified service is running...
View ArticleA Stairway series on Performance Tuning would be amazing!
Hi allI didn't know where to post this so just posting this here. I know it's a big topic with so many different perspectives but it would be so awesome to have a Stairway series on Performance Tuning....
View Articlerecovery latency of the base
Hello everyoneI have a database block in recovery modethe process of recovery does not advance it is still in phase 2 with percentage of progress of 5%
View ArticleMultiple SSISDB
Hi,I need to merge multiple SQL Server 2012 servers into one. Those existing servers have their own SSISDB. The new server is also going to be 2016. So it is both the merge and upgrade from 2012 to...
View ArticleLog activity in relation to simple recovery
I know this is basic, but I'm having trouble understanding the MSDN articles and forum discussions on this. If a database is in simple recovery does the log file only get truncated after a backup is...
View ArticleBasic availability group
Hi,Sql: sqlserver2016 standard editionTrying to setup basic availability groups .Are the four different ips required for four basic availability groups ?We have one application using these four...
View ArticleLicence
Hi,Creating log shipping with no recovery mode in sqlserver2016 standard edition.is the secondary instance needs licences if it serves the application after it becomes online and primary ?Thank you..
View ArticleUnattended install of SSAS keeps installing into c:\data despite specifying...
Hi allI'm working on automating our SQL installs through unattended install via cmd line. All working well for the DB Engine and SSRS installs. When it comes to SSAS, i'm having a frustrating issue. I...
View ArticleA SQL 2017 Licensing Question
Hi,We have three VM (V1, V2, V3) running on 3 separate host (H1, H2, H3). H1 has16 cores, H2 has 20 cores, H3 has 20 cores running on a remote data center. We plan to setup AlwaysOn group V1 as the...
View ArticleCryptographic objects and SQL Server upgrade
Hi,I am upgrading an SQL instance from 2012 to 2016 by building a new server and using backup/restore to migrate the databases to the new 2016 instance.I've checked, that none of the databases are...
View Articlewhat is scenario / sa disabled / Active Directory unavailable
Little background........where used to work, always disabled sa acount. Usually would make another SQL login with sysadmin privileges.At a new place, I see they have sa enabled and we discussed...
View ArticleAlwaysOn Availability Groups in SQL Server 2016
Hi,I am trying to understand what is the criteria to decide that we need to implement Always On Availability
View Articlexp_cmdshell question
All,I have the following setup:Two domain users:domain\admin - domain admindomain\sqladmin - Used to run the sql services include the sql agentThe sql servers are part of the domainI'm trying to zip...
View ArticleOne alert for Always On Availability Group Failover.
Hi, I've been Googling and testing to try to find a solution that meets my goal, but I'm not having much luck. I'm hoping you all can provide some insight.Ok a little context. I have a simple AOAG...
View Article5TB Database and Only a Primary Filegroup
Morning Guys,I've inherited a 5TB database. 3TB of this DB are BLOB data stored in a Document table. (Not FileStream or FileTable, just image datatype). There is only a single primary filegroup.The...
View Articledm_db_index_usage_stats not accurately reflecting index usage
Hi allI'm trying to resolve a performance issue we are having with a stored proc - i've recently added a new index and this has brought down the runtime from 4 min to a few seconds. However, if I look...
View ArticleListener does not connect to the correct instance
I have an instance with Always ON and two replicas, one of primary and one of secondary. I have created another instance and enabled Always On, each group located in different instances has a different...
View ArticleCluster on partitioned table
All,My table configuration is as follows:Field 1 is a uniqueidentifier, has rowguid set to yes and a default of 'newid'Field 2 is a date fieldThere are other fields but I don't think they are relevant...
View ArticleHow to Size Database
Morning Guys,I've touched on a previous irrelevant post that I've got a 5TB DB with lots of free space in it, and soon to be more free space. As a matter of another process I am building an empty db...
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