SQL SERVER – Availability Group Seen in SSMS but missing in Cluster Manager. What’s Wrong?

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.

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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.

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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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