When it rains, it pours. In the last few days last few contacts from my customers were for cluster related issues. Once again, the SQL Server resource was not coming online in failover cluster manager. I asked them to check if ERRORLOG is being generated and if yes, share the content. SQL SERVER – Where is ERRORLOG? Various Ways to Find ERRORLOG Location. Let us learn how to fix Unable to Bring Resource Online.
SQL SERVER – Analysis Services and the Network Performance
SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) is becoming increasingly popular as an OLAP platform for business analysts. Network Performance
SQL SERVER – FIX: Incorrect Syntax Near the Keyword ‘PROCEDURE’
Along with freelancing, consulting, I also spend time in replying to my blog comments to learn something new. Few such conversations end up in business deals, few in emails and few in the blog. This blog originates from one of such conversation regarding incorrect syntax.
How to Find Size of All the Indexes on the Database – Interview Question of the Week #097
Question: How to Find Size of All the Indexes on the Database?
SQL SERVER – How to Get List of SQL Server Instances Installed on a Machine?
There are multiple ways by which we can find a list of SQL Server instances name instances on a machine. In this blog, I would show a few ways to do it.
Understanding Database Scalability – Horizontal and Vertical Scalability Better Together
When I wrote the blog around Understanding Database Scalability – Vertical and Horizontal, I saw few have conversations with me on if it is this or that. And these discussions could take a course all by itself. There is no one size fits all when it comes to scalability. We need to understand the fine prints and details of how the application needs are, what are the restrictions, user requirements and much more.
SQL SERVER – Unable to bring resource online. Error – Data source name not found and no default driver specified
One of my blog readers reported a strange issue to me. As per the issue described, they were unable to bring SQL Server resource in cluster online, only on one node of the cluster. I always use for error messages, but they said that SQL resource goes to online pending state and after some time, it goes to failed state. Let us learn how to fix the error where data source name not found.
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