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SQL SERVER – Availability Group Seen in SSMS but missing in Cluster Manager....
One of my existing clients has sent me an interesting question. In this blog, I would share one interesting situation where my client has created an availability group and it was visible in SSMS, but...
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SQL SERVER – FIX: The specified instance of SQL Server is hosted by a system...
Sometimes if the sequence is not followed correctly, we might see some weird errors. In this blog, we would learn how to fix always on an error while adding new replica “The specified instance of SQL...
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SQL SERVER – Read Only Routing Error: Client Unable to Establish Connection...
I have helped many clients in deploying Always On Availability Group. Based on their requirement they keep using additional features provided by availability groups. This time they wanted to use...
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SQL SERVER – Drop failed for Availability Group – Failed to Destroy the...
While working with one of the clients to recover from a disaster, I encountered an error. In this blog we would talk about error Drop failed for Availability Group. If you want any such assistance, you...
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SQL SERVER – T-SQL Script to List Automatic Seeding of Always On Availability...
I love blog post which just solves a simple point and immediately gets us the necessary answer. Recently during one of the consulting engagement Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check at one...
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SQL SERVER – Automatic Seeding of Availability Database ‘DB’ in Availability...
While deploying Always On Availability Group with a client, they found that when they use automatic seeding, the database was not shown on secondary. After digging more, we found that it was there...
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SQL SERVER – Different Size of COPY_ONLY Full Backup on Primary and Secondary...
While preparing for a disaster recovery demo for my client, I observed an interesting behavior. In this blog, I would show a quick demo where you can learn how the full backup size can be different on...
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SQL SERVER – Add Database to Availability Group Failure – This BACKUP or...
I always recommend my client to go with the latest and great version of tools like SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS). In this blog, we would learn about a situation where an older version of SSMS was...
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SQL SERVER – Automatic Seeding of Availability Database ‘SQLAGDB’ in...
Earlier I have written few blogs about automatic seeding feature. In this blog we would learn how to fix error: Automatic seeding of availability database ‘SQLAGDB’ in availability group ‘AG’ failed...
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SQL SERVER – Error 35296: Log Backup for Database “SQLAuthority” on Secondary...
One of my clients contacted me for whom I assisted in configuring Always On Availability Groups for the first time. They were getting an error whole taking log backup on secondary replica: Log backup...
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SQL SERVER – Always On Listener Failure – Provisioning Computer Object Failed...
In the past, I have written a few blogs where I explained a few issues about the failure of listener creation in the cluster. In this blog, we would see another cause of listener creation failure.I...
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SQL SERVER – Always On Listener Creation Failure – Enabling Object...
In the past, I have written a few blogs where I explained a few issues about the failure of listener creation Failure in a cluster. In this blog, we would see another cause of listener creation...
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SQL SERVER – Always On Error: This Database is Encrypted by Database Master...
As a part of my work, I also provide consultancy to fix the issues. It has three advantages, first one is that I earn money and the second one, more important one, is that I get to troubleshoot and...
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SQL SERVER – LogonUserExEx Fails for User & GetToken – Logging on as the CNO...
SQL Always-On feature is so tied to cluster that sometimes you would need to look at various logs to fix a failure. In this blog I would share my learning about fixing error LogonUserExEx fails for...
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SQL SERVER – Unable to Disable Query Store for Always On Database
One of my clients enabled query store features to perform some troubleshooting by themselves. Since they were not able to find the cause and fix the issue, the contacted me via my famous service...
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What is Transactional Replication Supported Version Matrix? – Interview...
Question: What is the Transactional Replication Supported Version Matrix?Answer: Most of the projects I do are about Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check. When we start a new project we have...
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SQL SERVER – AlwaysOn and Propagation of Compatibility Level
It is not possible to Propagation of Compatibility Level in AlwaysOn or mirroring from primary to secondary mirroring. Well, that’s what I wanted to share in this blog post. I often get the question in...
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SQL SERVER – Find Instance Name for Availability Group Listener
How to Find Instance Name for Availability Group Listener? I was recently asked this by DBA at Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check. Well, the question is very valid if you are familiar...
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SQL SERVER – Query Store Feature for Secondary Replicas
SQL Server 2022 introduces an intriguing feature – the Query Store for secondary replicas. This feature extends the Query Store functionality from primary replicas to secondary replica workloads. In...
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