If you have ever contacted me via email, you would know that I am very active in replying to emails. Many of the emails are for suggestions and I don’t get much time to help everyone, but I do reply to them letting them know the alternatives. If you are following my blog, you would know that I do provide “On Demand” services to help critical issues. This blog is an outcome of one of such short engagement. This is how it started and it is about RPC Server.
NuoDB – Achieving Performance Through Scale-Out – Elastic Scalability
The other day, I received an email asking – What does elastic scalability mean?
SQL SERVER – Database Files Initial Size Changing Automatically
One of my clients reported an interesting issue and I was needed to wear detective cap to solve it. The mystery, for which they hired me was as below for Database Files Initial Size Changing Automatically.
SQL SERVER – SQL Agent Not Starting. The EventLog Service has Not Been Started
Many companies do hardening of servers to make sure they are protected from any known vulnerabilities. It is important to test all the application in test server before doing hardening. Let us learn about how to fix Eventlog Service not starting.
SQL SERVER – FIX: The Log for Database Cannot be Shrunk Until All Secondaries Have Moved Past the Point Where the Log was Added
While preparing for a demo for a client I was hit with an interesting error in AlwaysOn Availability Group backup and restore scenario. In my lab setup, I had four nodes SQLAUTH1 to SQLAUTH4 and I have always on high availability turned on SQL Server 2016. I played and did several operations with database and found that I have bloated the transaction log file to 100 GB. And now I need to shrink the transaction log on SQLAUTH1. As soon as I did that, I was welcomed with below message about database cannot be shrunk until all secondaries have moved past the point.
SQL SERVER – Caution: Adding Node in AlwaysOn Availability Group
It is interesting to see that in the past few days I have seen a similar pattern of an issue hit by three clients. All of them contacted me for a short engagement for the same issue. As you might know, every single day I keep two slots available for On Demand (50 minutes) so here is one of their emails. Let us learn about adding node in the AlwaysOn availability group.
SQL SERVER – Automatic Startup Not Working for SQL Server Service
Sometimes some behaviors in SQL Server are unexpected and that’s the right time when an expert need to be engaged. In this blog post we will learn about how automatic startup sometimes does not work in SQL Server Services.