A client could not failover SQL Server to another node: registry information is corrupt or missing. Here is how I found the right error in the logs.
How to Write Errors in Error Log? – Interview Question of the Week #175
How to write errors in Error Log? A customer asked this in my performance tuning workshop, and here is how to add your own messages to the SQL Server log.
SQL SERVER – Install Error: Microsoft Cluster Service (MSCS) Cluster Verification Errors – Part 2
Part 2 of my series on the MSCS cluster verification errors rule in SQL Server setup: another cause we found in Detail.txt during install or AddNode.
SQL SERVER – Install Error: Microsoft Cluster Service (MSCS) Cluster Verification Errors – Part 1
Installing a SQL Server clustered instance failed the Microsoft Cluster Service (MSCS) Cluster Verification rule. Part 1 covers the verification report cause.
SQL SERVER – Setup / Installation Error – Updating Permission Setting for File ResumeKeyFilter.Store Failed
A new SQL Server 2016 install failed at the end: updating permission setting for file ResumeKeyFilter.Store failed. Here is how I fixed this setup error.
SQL SERVER – Maintenance Plan Error: Failed to Acquire Connection “Local Server Connection”.
None of the maintenance plans worked, though the jobs ran fine. The error was failed to acquire connection “Local server connection”. Here is why.
SQL SERVER – SQL Server Cluster Resource Doesn’t Come Online Randomly
A client’s SQL Server Cluster Resource sometimes failed to come online after a failover to another node. Here is what caused it and how we fixed it.






