One of my clients has configured AlwaysOn availability group and wanted to automate backup to secondary replica. They debugged and found that the function sys.fn_hadr_backup_is_preferred_replica returns 0 no matter what the backup preference is set to. Since function was returning zero, the maintenance plan was ignoring the server to take backup.
How Many Temporary Tables are Created So Far in SQL Server? – Interview Question of the Week #149
Question: How Many Temporary Tables are Created So Far in SQL Server?
SQL SERVER – TCP Provider – An Operation On a Socket Could Not be Performed Because the System Lacked Sufficient Buffer Space or Because a Queue was Full
Sometimes, I am contacted by blog readers via email and trust me, I get to learn something new. One of my blog reader contacted me for below error about buffer space.
SQL Authority News – Updates on Recent Trip to SQL PASS 2017, Seattle
Today is Thanksgiving in the USA and few other countries. Earlier last week I returned from the USA attending various customer meetings and conferences. Here is a quick update about my trip to SQL PASS 2017, Seattle.
SQL SERVER – AlwaysOn Wizard Error – Checking for Compatibility of the Database File Locations on the Server Instance that Hosts Secondary Replica
This blog is about another message which I faced with I faced in the wizard. You can read earlier two blogs with more problems which my client faced. This error is about AlwaysOn Wizard Error.
SQL SERVER – AlwaysOn Wizard Error – The Endpoints Tab Lists at Least One Endpoint that Uses Only Windows Authentication
While configuring AlwaysOn availability group for one of my clients, there were various errors. I planned to write blog on all errors which I encountered. Here is an earlier blog. After we bypassed all errors in “Select Databases” screen, we came to “Specify Replicas” screen. We added both server names and as soon as we hit next, we got below message. Let us learn about how to fix AlwaysOn Wizard Error.
SQL SERVER – Error – Auto Close is Enabled. Only Databases with Auto Close Disabled can be Added to an Availability Group
As a part of my consulting job, I do work with clients who wanted to deploy AlwaysOn availability group. Sometimes there are some simple errors which are encountered, but new DBAs are not aware of such things. In this blog we would talk about one of such error.