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.
SQL SERVER – Installation Error – Status Code: 183 Description: Cannot Create a File When that File Already Exists
One of my client was unable to install SQL Server 2014 on a Windows 2012 Cluster. They were using mount points with below the structure. Let us learn about installation error.
SQL SERVER – sp_server_diagnostics – The User Does Not Have Permission to Perform this Action. (297)
In SQL Server 2012 onwards, the cluster health check detection logic has been enhanced. Instead of the traditional pull mechanism of the cluster (IsAlive and LooksAlive), SQL Server (version 2012 onwards) uses a push mechanism to detect the health of the SQL instance. This is done by special stored procedure called sp_server_diagnostics. We should remember that the failover mechanism for the AlwaysOn FCI and the AlwaysOn Availability Groups is same.
SQL SERVER – Clustered SQL Resource Not Coming Online
When I was on-site for the performance tuning workshop, few DBAs suddenly got call as there was an unexpected downtime of SQL Server. As per them, after some maintenance activities were scheduled, the SQL Server resource failed to come online on both nodes. When they try to bring it online, it remains in online pending state for some time before failing eventually. Here are the things I tried. Let us see an error related to clustered SQL Resource not coming online.
SQL SERVER – Unable to Add Server Name SQLAUTH-LISTENER to Transport Device NetBt_If4 Status 2 – Windows Cluster
During one of my consulting engagement about Always On availability group configuration, I found that listener network name was not coming online. As a rule of thumb, I always generate cluster log for any error related to cluster. SQL SERVER – Steps to Generate Windows Cluster Log?
SQL SERVER – Slow Installation Wizard on Cluster – Please Wait While Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Setup Process the Current Operation
Have you come across a situation where setup is taking many hours while navigating from one screen to another in clustered environment? Have you ever waited for many hours watching following message related to slow installation wizard on cluster?
SQL SERVER – Unable to Install Service Pack in Cluster – There was an Error to Lookup Cluster Resource Types
Learning never stops for me with SQL Server. Even though I have written articles to solve many issues, I still get pinged from various clients and I find one new thing every day. In this blog post we will learn how to fix the error related to installing the service pack in the cluster.