SQL SERVER – Installation Wizard Hang Forever – Please Wait on Feature Selection Page

Here is one of the situations which I encountered with SQL Server 2014 on Windows Server 2012 R2. I wanted to add “Analysis Services” features to an existing installation. I came up with the feature selection screen on SQL setup and pressed next it hangs with “Please Wait”. I click on it and went for lunch, when I came back, it was still in the same state. Let us learn how to fix the issue related to Installation Wizard Hang Forever.

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SQL SERVER- Unable to Failover AlwaysOn Availability Group to Disaster Recovery Site

One of my clients took my assistance to deploy Always On availability group. After few months, they added a Disaster Recovery node to windows cluster and availability group also. Later, they contacted me that they are not able to move availability group to DR node. They were getting an error like below in event viewer.

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SQL SERVER – Unable to Connect to SQL Server in Azure Virtual Machine from SSMS on On-Premise Machine

From past few months, I am seeing a few of my client moving their development workload to Cloud. When I asked the reason, it was mostly cost reduction in terms of hardware lifetime, licensing and connectivity advantage and their developer can work from anywhere. In this blog post, we will learn about how to fix error related to Azure Virtual Machine. 

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