SQL SERVER – Cluster Patching: The RPC Server is Too Busy to Complete This Operation

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. 

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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.

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SQL SERVER – FIX: RequireKerberos Error During SQL 2008 Installation on Windows 2008 R2 Cluster

Today the progress made in technology is astounding and beyond our imaginations, but still there are clients who can’t move to higher, latest and greatest version of SQL so easily. They are still stuck with SQL 2005 and SQL 2008 SQL servers. In this blog post we will learn how to fix RequireKerberos Error During SQL 2008 Installation on Windows 2008 R2 Cluster.

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