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Is your SQL Server running slow and you want to speed it up without sharing server credentials? In my Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check, we can work together remotely and resolve your biggest performance troublemakers in less than 4 hours.

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SQL SERVER – Unable to Start SQL After Patching – Database SSISDB is Enabled for Database Mirroring

Pinal Dave
SQL
SQL Error Messages, SQL Mirroring, SQL Patch, SQL Server, SQL Server Cluster, Starting SQL
1 Comment

I do apply patches to my SQL instances as and when they are released by Microsoft. This is important because I always feel keeping the bits up-to-date is essential because I don’t want to get infected as I travel quite a bit. Since I play a lot with my SQL Server, there are more chances that things are going to break sooner than your production server. Here is one such incident. Let us learn about how to fix script level upgrade. Let us learn how to fix the error related to SSISDB. 

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SQL SERVER – Steps to Deploy Distributed Availability Group – Windows Clusters in Different Domains

Pinal Dave
SQL
AlwaysOn, SQL High Availability, SQL Server, SQL Server Cluster
3 Comments

In the current era where companies’ mergers and take over is a common phenomenon, it is possible to run into a situation where there are two domains which are connected but not trusted. I was engaged in consulting for a client who had a similar merger in the past. The reporting application was in a different domain and they wanted data to be synchronized in SQL Server database on parent domain. Essentially, they had two windows clusters and they want to have one AG across them. The only solution which came to my mind was Distributed Availability Group in SQL Server. To make things little more complicated, they did not want to use certificates to configure this setup. As per them, certificates will add an overhead of maintenance. Here is the oversimplified diagram of their deployment.

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SQL SERVER – Unable to Add Node – Could not find subkey System \ CurrentControlSet \ Services \ MSSQLFDLauncher. Error code 0x851B0001

Pinal Dave
SQL
Full-Text Search, SQL Server, SQL Server Cluster, SQL Server Services
2 Comments

After a bit of testing on my lab server, I was able to reproduce the issue! We will not see a feature listed on the Features Page if the respective MSI file is missing from the Setup Media. Full-Text Search using the MSI called sql_fulltext.msi and is present in the setup path MediaRoot\x64\Setup. I was not able to see the sql_fulltext.msi file in the client’s setup media. I was suspecting other files to be missing too so we extracted a fresh copy of the setup media (from new downloaded ISO) and then ran the “New Failover Cluster” setup. This time, we were able to see Full-Text Search option. Let us learn how to fix the error related to unable to add node.

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Pinal Dave is an SQL Server Performance Tuning Expert and independent consultant with over 24 years of hands-on experience. He holds a Masters of Science degree and numerous database certifications.

Pinal has authored 14 SQL Server database books and 92 Pluralsight courses. To freely share his knowledge and help others build their expertise, Pinal has also written more than 5,800 database tech articles on his blog at https://blog.sqlauthority.com.

Pinal is an experienced and dedicated professional with a deep commitment to flawless customer service. If you need help with any SQL Server Performance Tuning Issues, please feel free to reach out at pinal@sqlauthority.com.

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