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 no role was visible in failover cluster manager.
SQL SERVER – Say No To Database Engine Tuning Advisor
I have been using SQL Server for over 20 years and have been working on the focused area of SQL Server Performance Tuning for over 12 years. In recent time I have been very busy doing Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check, and the client, I enjoy working the most is the one who has used in the past Database Engine Tuning Advisor.
Feb 2019 Updates – Webcast, SQLBits, SQL Saturday and Performance Tuning of Your System
As February starts, just thought of dropping a note to let you know where you can find me in the upcoming months. Do scroll down all the way to read the change in offering in SQL Server Performance Tuning Workshop.
Does Parallel Threads Process Equal Rows? – Interview Question of the Week #211
Question: Does Parallel Threads Process Equal Rows?
SQL SERVER – Msg 2555: Cannot Move All Contents of File to Other Places to Complete the Emptyfile Operation
Once upon a time, I was trying to remove TempDB database additional files, but it was not working. In this blog I would explain the steps needed fix Msg 2555: Cannot move all contents of the file to other places to complete the emptyfile operation.
SQL SERVER – Patch Failure – Unable to Retrieve the Cluster Service
Few of my clients are still running older versions of SQL Server and they have their own reasons to not to move to the new SQL version. In this blog, we would learn about the fix of an error for which my client contacted me. My client was trying to apply the patch to a SQL Server 2008 R2 clustered instance which was running on Window Server 2012 and getting the error: Unable to retrieve the Cluster Service – Not clustered or the cluster service is up and online.
SQL SERVER – Error 1051: A Stop Control Has Been Sent to a Service that Other Running Services are Dependent On
Sometimes there are some random unexpected errors and it’s always fun to find the cause of them. In this blog we would learn about an error 1051 (A stop control has been sent to a service that other running services are dependent on) which I received while stopping SQL Service in my lab server.
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