Server A = primary SQL DBs (mirroring origination)
Server B = failover SQL DBs (mirroring destination)
For database mirroring a witness is required.
Can the witness live in another instance of SQL on server B?
missing witness server information and the fail-over is broken suddenly? 4:00am no maintenance job. I have one sql job on 10pm for backup on database transaction log only.
I can see the primary have problem then perform fail-over to mirror database, the auto fail-over was broken.
I re-build the sql mirror is OK , but i want to find the root cause.
Windows application event was full when there have many failed event, i have increase log size for application event. Â
I'm devlving into 2005 and specifically mirroring.Having read the following article (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pr...5/dbmirror.mspx ),is mirroring a sensible option as it indicates that it should not beused in a production environment, yet the SQL2005 seminars I've been toindicate that this is a worthy option.Do we also need a witness server, or can this be done (sensibly) withtwo SQL2005 servers ?Currently we have 2xSQL2000 (clustered) servers and a SAN for the data.If we go down the route of mirroring, it looks like we can get rid ofthe SAN and Cluster and use the mirroring instead.Any advice on the pro's / cons would be appreciated.ThanksRyan
View 5 Replies View RelatedHi guys , I would like to know what's the exactly results able to get in this following scenario.
Server A : Principal
Server M : Mirror
Server W : Witness
1) Firstly, disable server M, following by server W. So probably i will unable to connect to Server A eventhough it acts as a principal.
2) Next, if I enable either server M or server W , what will I able to get actually ? Is it the mirroring works like the article which written in Microsoft page ?(http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/dbmirror.mspx#ETPAE)
At here, I get an error message and unable to continue the mirroring section. ( "Database EMS is enabled for Database Mirroring, but neither the partner nor witness server instances are available: the database cannot be opened." or "Database 'EMS' is being recovered. Waiting until recovery is finished." )
3) If I enable both server M and server W, the mirroring continue to work again.
Can I have any assistance on (2) issue? Thx for the assistance.
Best Regards,
Hans
Can 1 witness server work for 4 Principal and mirror servers?
Needs expert advise.
I need to start mirroring the databases without witness server.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am unable to add witness server to my mirror configuration. my error log is throwing error'Connection handshake failed. The certificate used by the peer is invalid due to the following reason: Certificate not found. State 89'.
View 5 Replies View RelatedWe have 2 data centers, site 1 and site 2. Â Site 1 is generally our primary, and site 2 is our Disaster Recovery (DR) site. Â I want to setup a SQL instance to have extremely high availability. Â Therefore I was looking at using DB mirroring, with synchronous data writing, high-safety and auto-failover. Â This requires the usage of a witness server.My problem with this setup, is that if the witness and principal are both at site 1, if site 1 goes away (power failure, asteroid impact, lol, anything else that would be a *true* DR scenario), then there is no failover to the mirror server at site 2. Â However, if you put the witness at site 2, anytime the WAN link between site 1 and site 2 has an issue, the DB will auto-failover to site 2. Â Is the reason for the recommendation of the witness being at the primary site because the thinking is that WAN link failure is likely more common than a *true* DR scenario that takes out all of site 1?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have managed to set up mirroring on SQl 2005 however i have a come across a problem that i dont know how to resolve.
Im running the mirroring with 'High Safety with automatic failover.'
If i instagate a failover on the Principal Database, the mirror becomes the Principal, and vice versa ... great .. how ever .. i tried the golden test by making the principal server dissapear by yanking out the network connection, expecting the mirror to become the principal.....nope it just stays there in a disconnected / restoring state which isnt any good to man nor beast . I thought that the Witness should have dectected that the principal database had 'dissapeared' and would have made the mirror the Principal.
Any pointers on where i might have gone wrong in the setting up process, i used the mirror wizard
One of my client asking mirroring between two server with witness.Is it possible witness and mirror in same server(with same instance)? OR Is it possible witness and primary in same server(with same instance) ? Best method to establishing mirroring with in two servers(with witness) ?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI am using SQl Server 2012 Database Mirroring with around 40 gb as mdf and 1 gb as ldf. Now my ldf size increased . How to reduce ldf size while mirror enabled with mirror server and witness server. Can shrink the ldf with mirror enables.
View 4 Replies View RelatedUsing SQL Server 2008, we would like propose mirroring between two servers of a critical database. Since we initiate, may require to clarify on its purpose and also required changes from application end.Any changes required from OS Level? (I believe both servers IP or Host name should be added in host entries. Mirroring ports should be allowed/open including Principal and mirror server IP Addresses): Windows Team.Any changes required from Application? (Instance name, authentication: user name and its password should be added in web config files): Application Team.Any changes required from Network Team?Also for mirroring both the principal and mirror servers should be with same version, does it only mean SQL Server 2008 versions are enough or does it also mean to say build numbers 10.00.4000 should also be same.URL....
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have setup database mirroring for one big database.But now Transaction log is full and server is down. What should i do? We do bulk-insert in that database.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI need to set up asyncronous data replication across two clustered instances of SQL 2012 across 2 Datacenters. Both the datacenters have a common domain however the vlans are different. There are only 3 small databases on the primary instance.
any issue in setting up mirroring in this case as vlans are different.
Operating system is Windows 2012.
Hello, My question is simply: according to BOL, a DB snapshot taken from a Mirror is read-only. Say I wanted a temporary (disposable) read-write DB created from the snapshot. Is there a way to generate a writable temp DB (that's not tempdb) from the snapshot? Thanks,AK
View 1 Replies View RelatedI need to migrate my SQL server Mirror Database to a new server. my current setup is as below
1. server A principal (192.168.1.100)
2. server B Mirror   (192.168.1.200)
Now i have a new server (Server C) to replace server B as below
1. server A principal (192.168.1.100)
2. server C Mirror   (192.168.1.300)
My question is how to migrate mirror db to new server without any affect or downtime on principal server.
note: SQL SERVER 2008R2 EE(64BIT), Win2008R2 EE 64bit.
Dear,
Are possible build a solution with SQL Server 2005 Cluster and Database Mirroring? I have the following scenario:
1) Site A
SQL Server 2005 with 2 nodes and active/passive
2) Site B
SQL Server 2005 for Disater Recovery with Log Shipping.
Are possivel change Log Shipping by the Database Mirroring? If is possible, are better:
a) Synchronous(with or without witness)
b) Asynchronous
Thanks a lot! Sandro.
sgpcosta@hotmail.com
Hi there.
I´m running some tests in a database with Mirroring and without Mirroring. As expected there is a performance hit using Database mirroring.
The tests i´m running are just simple functions inserting and updating the database, and then counting the number of sucedeed inserts and updates in a time interval.
My question here is: What if i use Sql Server failover mechanism?
I know that failover time will increase and management is more complex, but what can i expect in terms of performance ?
Hi All,
I get a general question about the feacture "Database Mirroring". Is it support by SQL Server Standard. Edition without SP1?? Of i still need to upgrade the server from SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2005 with SP1?
Another question: are there any problem if the one machine(server) has installed SQL server 2005 Standard edition and the other with "Developer Editon".
I hope some one can answer my question. Thanks anyway!
Regards,
Pat
I have setup database mirroring with witness server. To prevent unnecessary failover because of network slow or other issue, I changed the timeout setting as
ALTER DATABASE <Database Name>
SET PARTNER TIMEOUT 120
Which I understand if connection is broken between principal and mirror, principal database will wait for 120 second and after that only automatic failover will happen.
If this is true, it does not happen in my case. Failover happens before120 second.
I have multiple SQL 2008 severs with databases. Also, 1 mirroring server in place.
Since my database count is increasing can i have only 1 mirroring server. Is there any limit of db at mirroring server. I would have approx. 150 databases.
I have created mirroring... one of the column is encrypted on mirror database and I can see the decrypted result when I do query when I actually logged into server (through remote connection) but when I use the same query through using SSMS from my laptop the query result come as the column is not decrypted,
View 0 Replies View RelatedI am trying to enable database mirroring for 100 database.
It goes error free till 59 databases (some times 60 databases) with the
status (principal, synchronized) on principal. on the 60th or 61st database
it gave the status (principal, disconnected). Also mirror starts acting
abnormal. connection to mirror starts to give connection timeout and it is
not enabling database mirroring on any more databases. I have SQL SERVER
2005 Enterprise with SP1 on the servers. witness is not included yet.
this are my test servers... i have more than 500 databases on my production
servers.
principal and mirror both are using port 5022 for ENDPOINT communication.
Dear All,
I have a download "SQL Server 2005 Evalution Copy". I installed it to 3 machine, 1 - XP Professional (Witness) and 2 - Windows Server 2000 (Principle and Mirror) . And I want to try Database mirroring.
However, after restore the Log into mirror server I try to execute the following statement in Principle Server:
ALTER DATABASE TestDB
SET PARTNER=N'TCP://[10.0.200.2]:5022'
GO
The above 10.0.200.2 is the mirror server IP address.
it show error message as:
Msg 1416, Level 16, State 31, Line 1
Database "SCMPGroup" is not configured for database mirroring.
In Miorror Server
I execute the statement :
ALTER DATABASE TestDB
SET PARTNER=N'TCP://[10.0.200.1]:5022'
The above 10.0.200.1 is the principle server IP address.
It shows sucess
ALTER DATABASE TestDB
SET WITNESS=N'TCP://[10.0.15.146]:5022'
it show error message as:
Msg 1416, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
Database "SCMPGroup" is not configured for database mirroring.
Please help me! I down't know if NT4 domain or evalution copy problem in there.
I have SQL Server 2008 R2 database mirroring setup with witness. Below database connection string is used by the application
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jdbc:sqlserver://<Server_A>MSSQLSERVER;databaseName=<Mirrored_DB>;port=1433;failoverPartner=<Server_B>MSSQLSERVER
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During some maintenance activity at the OS side , I tried to manually failover database from Server_A to Server_B. It took long time for failover to Server_B. While failing over the Mirrored_DB database goes in In Recovery status and application is not able to connect to database. I waited for long time more than 40 mins for database to come online on Server_B but it did not work.So I have recovered database on Server_B using RESTORE DATABASE Mirrored_DB WITH RECOVERY.
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After database was recovered on Server_B application was not able to connect to database with error as "The database <Mirrored_DB> on server Server_BMSSQLSERVER is not configured for database mirroring".
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My Question is
Why manual failover did not get back database on secondary server upwhy the original  connection string below is not able to connect to the database while database is online on Server_B  but without mirroring
 jdbc:sqlserver://<Server_A>MSSQLSERVER;databaseName=<Mirrored_DB>;port=1433;failoverPartner=<Server_B>MSSQLSERVER
I am trying to enable database mirroring for 100 database.
It goes error free till 59 databases (some times 60 databases) with the
status (principal, synchronized) on principal. on the 60th or 61st database
it gave the status (principal, disconnected). Also mirror starts acting
abnormal. connection to mirror starts to give connection timeout and it is
not enabling database mirroring on any more databases. I have SQL SERVER
2005 Enterprise with SP1 on the servers. witness is not included yet.
these are my test servers... i have more than 500 databases on my production
servers.
principal and mirror both are using port 5022 for ENDPOINT communication.
All of the databases are critical and all must be included in the Database Mirroring.
so, after that I tried to implement database mirroring again......
System has 3 GB of RAM, SQL SERVER (Mirror) using 85 MB of RAM but still
giving this error while trying to enable database mirroring for 37th
Database.....
"There is insufficient system Memory to run this query"
WHY?
Hi!
I have setup a database mirroring session without witness - ServerA is the principal, ServerB is the mirror,. Each SQL Server instance is hosted on its own machine on sql2005 EE SP2. The mirroring is working correctly. If I submit to server ServerA command:
ALTER DATABASE MYDBNAME SET PARTNER FAILOVER
, ServerB becomes the principal, it means that mirroring works correctly.
My issue is with the SQL Native Client and a front-end ASP application (actually IIS 6.0 site) that needs to make use of this database. I have setup my front-end application to use SQL Native Client and specified the failover server in connection string. Here is the connection string that I am using :
PROVIDER=SQLNCLI.1;Server=ServerA,1433;Failover Partner=ServerB,1433;Database=MYDBNAME;Network=dbmssocn;Integrated Security=SSPI;
Everything works perfectly on my front-end application when ServerA is the principal. If I execute on server ServerA command:
ALTER DATABASE MYDBNAME SET PARTNER FAILOVER
, ServerB becomes the principal, and the failover occurs correctly on the database side. The problem is that my front-end application is not able to query the database on ServerB. The error appears:
Microsoft SQL Native Client error '80004005'
Cannot open database "MYDBNAME" requested by the login. The login failed.
This behavior my appication till I unload IIS 6.0 pool application. After that my front-end application becomes work correctly with ServerB.
When I swap server, I execute on server ServerB command:
ALTER DATABASE MYDBNAME SET PARTNER FAILOVER,
my IIS 6.0 application automaticly turn back to ServerA without any action on my side.
I am using SQL Native Client last version http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/7/c/27c60d49-6dbe-423e-9a9e-1c873f269484/sqlncli.msi (issued in February 2007). Has anyone experienced this issue? I'm thinking that it's a problem in the SQL Native client
I configured a database mirroring on SQL server 2008 R2 on test environment. However It was not working, after some time. I deleted the mirroring configuration and also deleted database on both primary and mirror instance.
few days later I notices, On Primary, Continuous error events logged with message "database mirroring attempt by user 'domainservice account' failed with error 'connection handshake failed, 'domainservice account' does not have permission on the endpoint state 84.
I want to get rid of this message.
I have a 2 node cluster having 4 cores each wherein having 3 instances of SQL 2008 R2 enterprise comprising of 60 databases, 20 on each instance. I need to setup mirroring for each of the databases to a secondary server having 4 cores and 3 instances. What i understand is that in this case the mirror server will be providing max of 512 worker threads and the 60 mirror databases would consume 240 threads.what all needs to be checked for looking into the feasabilty of going ahead with a async mirror setup as mentioned above.
View 0 Replies View RelatedHi,
I received an alert 'The SQL Server Service Broker or Database Mirroring transport is disabled or not configured'
How can I check the status of the two? and if they are disabled how do I enable them?
Can someone at Microsoft comment on this article, specifically, how it relates to SQL Replication? Will SQL Replication fall into the category of what this article describes, or only the mirroring feature?
View 1 Replies View Relatedcommand in principal server
ALTER DATABASE database name
SET PARTNER = 'TCP://<mirror_server_name>:5022'
return:
Msg 1413, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
Communications to the remote server instance 'TCP://<mirror_server_neme>:5022' failed before database mirroring was fully started. The ALTER DATABASE command failed. Retry the command when the remote database is started.
This problem is only in production database any testing database include adventureworks mirroring sucessfuly. Why is problem:?
size? database > 9GB
slow HW? Principal database Intel D 3Ghz,4GB RAM, 4x 15k RPM HDD RAID 5 / Mirror database 2x Xeon 3Ghz,4GB RAM,6x HDD 10k RPM RAID 10
Slow LAN? both servers connect 1Gb/s
please help me
THX
I attempted to setup database mirroring using a High Availability scenario but when I installed SQL is chose to use local system accounts for all the services. Consequently, I stubled upon a microsoft article explaining how to setup mirroring using local system accounts and certificate authentication but I am stil not able to get it to work. When I try ti initiate the mirror from the mirror server I receive an error stating "Neither the partner nor the witness server instance for database "EDENLive" is available. Reissue the command when at least one of the instances becomes available." I have checked all the endpoints and everything seems to be in order. I even checked to make sure that each server was listening on the appropriate ports and I AM able to telnet to the ports. Please help!