We are going to install a SQL Server 2012 Ent. Edition two node (Active/Passive) cluster. Only one instance. Issue is, a separate shared storage is not provision for MSDTC.
1. Is it mandatory to configure MSDTC for a single SQL 2012 instance ?
2. Can we use one of the shared drives (Data/log/bkp/temp) for configuring MSDTC ?
Ideally we'd like to configure our SQL cluster w/ the databases on one drive and the logs on another. Is this feasable in a cluster solution.. Will it basically just be 2 drives that are failed over vs. 1?
I have a SAN and configuring a cluster on SQL 2005. I initially created a Quorum drive when setting up the cluster and now added 4 more drives to the physical node but when I try to install SQL that drive cannot be located.
Do we need to create all the drives when installing the cluster or what is the way to add the drives later on.
This is more a product featuer question which I cant seem to find the answer to
If we wanted to share the loads of SQL Server requests over say 2 or 4 servers, is this possible?
What I mean is basically Active/Active load balancing / clustering? So we have one Virtual IP and all requests are forwarded to the least busy server.....
I appologize if I am posting this msg twice (newby), but I am getting this error msg in the app log.
MS DTC setup failed to populate the shared cluster registry. The DTC resource will not be able to come online.Error Specifics: d:srv03rtmcomcomplusdtcsharedmtxclumtxcluse tuphelper .cpp:120, CmdLine: "C:WINDOWScluster esrcmon.exe" -e 1208 -m 1212 -p 2132, Pid: 3636
Have anybody seen this msg and any ideas on what to do in this situation? Your timely assistance is much appreciated. Thanks,
I'm looking at using Cluster Shared Volumes on a new Windows Server 2012/SQL Server 2014 cluster. Each instance is going to be configured to use cluster shared volumes. Is there any reason why Availability Groups couldn't be used in conjunction with Cluster Shared Volumes.
I have a stored procedure that has a paramter that accepts a string of values. At the user interface, I use a StringBuilder to concatenate the values (2,4,34,35,etc.) I would send these value to the stored procedure. The problem is that the stored procedure doesn't allow it to be query with the parameter because the Fieldname, "Officer_UID" is an integer data type, which can't be query against parameter string type. What would I need to do to convert it to an Integer array? @OfficerIDs as varchar(200) Select Officer_UID From Officers Where Officer_UID in (@OfficerIDs) Thanks
I am trying to run a program called NVivo7, which - when I install - also requires installation of SQL Server. Because my C drive is small (and nearly full), I am trying to run NVivo7 off my D drive, though SQL seems to install on C. Is it possible, do you think, to use 2 different drives in this way, or do both the program and the Server need to be on the same one? If so, is there any way to get them both on D?
So i'm not really new, but got a question. i've recently been looking to to the Western Digital Raptor Drives.
as far as performance, it's always been my understanding that the speed of the hard drive is just about always the bottle-neck of a computer. i'm currently running 2 stripped WD 500gb SATA drives for my SQL server (dual Xeon 2.8 with 2GB memory).
i'm thinking of upgarding to 4 WD Raptors (10k RPM) drives, the new 150GB models. anyone have an opionion? do you think i'll get a large performance increase?
the database that i run queries off of now is about 125 Million names, with about 80 fields in width. so it's rather large, and usally takes a fair abount of time to get my results back (we're talking anywhere from a minute, to half the day.)
do you think the raptors will slim that down significantly?
We recently installed SQL Server 2005. The server has 3 drives. When I try to restore a database I can only access the C: drive. How do I make the D: and E: drives visible in the "locate folder" window?
Can someone help me, I installed SQL 2005 Enterpirse Editon on windows clustered servers. Then after the installation I want to change the path of my DB logs but the problem was, I can not see the other drives. I can see only the drive where the DB was located. Is there any special configurations that should be done.
During the installation of Adding node to a SQL Server failover cluster(On passive node) getting error like.. The MOF compiler could not connect with the WMI server. This is either because of a semantic error such as an incompatibility with the existing WMI repository or an actual error such as the failure of the WMI server to start.We run the below commands but didn’t get any resolution & got the same above error .
1<sup>st</sup> Method…
1. Open console command (Run->CMD with administrator privileges).
2. net stop winmgmt
3. Rename folder %windir%System32WbemRepository to other one, for backup purposes (for example _Repository).
I am in the process of moving databases from a SQL 2005 Standard version to a 2-node 2014 cluster.All of my 2005 databases back up successfully.They all restore without issue except for one database that has a full text catalog. I get this message
Msg 7610, Level 16, State 1, Line 2 Access is denied to "fileStoragedataMSSQLSERVERFullTextCatalog", or the path is invalid. Msg 3156, Level 16, State 50, Line 2 File 'sysft_FTCatalog' cannot be restored to 'fileStoragedataMSSQLSERVERFullTextCatalog'. Use WITH MOVE to identify a valid location for the file. Msg 3119, Level 16, State 1, Line 2 Problems were identified while planning for the RESTORE statement. Previous messages provide details. Msg 3013, Level 16, State 1, Line 2 RESTORE DATABASE is terminating abnormally.
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I went as far as giving the folder full access to everyone temporarily and received the same error.
Hi , We are having 4 sql7 servers. All are in network only. serverA: drives c,d serverB: drives c,e serverC: drives c,d serverD: drives c,d,f Now my question i want map all the drives to each other. So that i can use the space wherever available, because in serverA i dont have space but in ServerC have lot of free space. Can anyone pls tell me in detail how we have to map the drives. Thanks
Hi, I'm looking for a way to check the free space left on the hard drives and then if needed send an alert to notify when we need to free up some space. I played around with the performance monitor and realized I could do it that way but I think you would have to leave the performance monitor running all the time and I'm not sure if I want to do that. I also read about the xp_fixeddrives proc that displays how much free space is available but then I don't know what to do from there? Does anyone have any recommendations for the best way to do this.
I mapped a drive on to my SQL Server box. It points to another server from the same domain. When I try to backup or restore a database, I can't see this mapped drive through my SQL Server. Even if I type the entire path, SQL Server wouldn't take it. I don't have a clue about why it is not working. Can anyone throw some light on this. Your help is grately appreciated.
Can someone tell me if it is possible to see the drives on the server using Perfomance Monitor? I so, where are tehy hiding because i struggled the wholed day!
I have a SQL 2000 server that is installed on a Dual Xeon server running win2k. The server has two raid 5 hard drives, a C drive and an E drive. The C drive is currently where the operating system files are stored as well as the SQL program files. As things stand there are SQL DB and transaction logs strewn between these two drives with no particular logic. My question is, with two drives as it stands how should I move things around to gain the best performance? For example, should I keep all my data on the E drives and all my transaction logs on the C drives with the OS and the program files?
There are about 10 Databases in use. One database run's the configuration for proprietary predictive dialing software. The other databases are calling information for each campaign we run within the dialing software.
I have enough space on both drives to accommodate the data, its performance I would like to see a difference in.
Problem: I have following drives on this server, Is there a query that I can run daily which will show us the % full and remaining storage capacity on these drives?
Logs(L) Data(M) Tempdb(T)
I would like to run that query on all of my servers to get a daily report.
I have a 75 GB hard drive and a 300 GB. I want to mirror the 75 to the 300 and use the extra space as data storage. Is this possible if I partition the 300 and then mirror the hard drives.
Can I build a cluster by adding the cluster service, then the SQL instances, then add the other nodes and their passive SQL instances?I would lean to building the cluster first, the add the SQL instances.
Is this possible? I seem to remember doing it with SQL Server 7 a long time ago. The Microsoft Knowledgebase says it's not possible with 4.2 through 6.5, but nothing about 7.0 and up.
hi all we have some servers connected in the same LAN, most of them with sql server. our production database is on a server with some several mapped drives (network drives). we have a maintenance plan which makes a database backup on one of this mapped drives, and also we make a backup of the transaction logs in another mapped drive.
recently we install another sql server on a new server and we are trying to create a maintenance plan in the same way as our production server. so we are trying to make backups in mapped drives. the server options are the same but the new server don't recognize the mapped drives...
is there an option or something that makes server recognize mapped drives or simply this server is not-well installed?
Basically what I am trying to do is run bcp from within a stored procedure in SQL 6.5. It allows me to dynamically assign the destination filename (the legacy application expects to see a file for each picking slip) I want to store the file on another server/shared directory on the LAN
Here is the code DECLARE @ship_no varchar(16) SELECT @ship_no = '1234567' DECLARE @SQL_SYNT varchar(255) SELECT @SQL_SYNT = "master.dbo.xp_cmdshell " + '"BCP AUSTCHAR..armaster out servernameBECpsqlout'+@ship_no+'.cba /c /t , /r /Sservername /Uuser /Ppassword"' EXEC( @SQL_SYNT)
However I get the following output:
(1 row(s) affected)
(1 row(s) affected)
output --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DB-LIBRARY error: Bcp: Unable to open host data-file.
The destination file is not created. I have tried: making the path the local HDD that works: Using a mapped drive, that does not work Running the same bcp command from the command line. That works. Using UNC's (as above) You can see the result. I have also checked security and made SQLexecutive ran as the domain admin. Did not work.
Are they're any real disadvantages or advantages in having 1 massive disk partioned to create 2 logical drives (not including the C drive) and separating the SQL Database File & Transaction Log so that it doesnt reside on the same logical drive?
