Is there a way to get access to the files on the shared drive from either of the nodes when the SQL Cluster is shut down?
It doesn't look like there is, but hoping there is some trick. I see how it can be done with a Windows Cluster but not a SQL Cluster.
I have two databases on a Production Server that I want to Log Ship to a Test Server. According to the sys.master files the physical File Location is on an E drive. Early attempts at Log Shipping these two files error'd out due to space issues on the E drive (one Log Shipped and then one err'd out). I was subsequently informed from the server group that they would prefer that I Log Ship these two database files over to the M Drive where more space is available. In fact, they modified the Server Properties / Database Settings / Database Default Locations (for Data and Log) to the larger M drive (I'm not really sure why they just don't increase the E drive space but there is proabably a good reason).
Okay, so now my problems have been solved. Easy enough. Now I deleted the successful Log Shipped database and started from scratch. However, as before, one db restored and one failed (due to space issues). Apparently, both db are pointing towards the E drive. How is that possible?
So here I am with one successful database and the normal sys databases pointing to the E drive. What is the best way of approaching this move to the larger and preferred M drive?
Hi
I have been trying to use openrowset with a shared drive, and even though the share has "full control" permissions granted to "everyone" and the accout that SQL runs under has been granted explicit full control permissions I am unable to open the file which itself has no security on it.
Can I not use a \ path and only use mapped drives?
Thanks
below works...
SELECT * FROM OPENROWSET('Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0','Excel 8.0;Database=C:5People.xls', [Sheet1$])
below doesn't work...
SELECT * FROM OPENROWSET('Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0','Excel 8.0;Database=\cluster02FileManager5People.xls', [Sheet1$])
Hi,
I have a shared drive mapped to the h: drive letter on my sql server and I want to create new databases on that drive. Is this at all
possible?
I try it and I couldn't see h: even if I typed it in.
Thanks
We have a requirement to build SQL environment which will give us local high availability and disaster recovery to second site. We have two sites- Site A & Site B. We are planning to have two nodes at Site A and 2 nodes at Site B. All four nodes will be part of same Windows failover cluster. We will build two SQL Cluster, InstanceA will be clustered between the nodes at Site A Server and InstanceB will be clustered between the nodes at Site B, we will enable Always On Between the InstanceA and InstanceB and will be primary owner where data will be written on InstanceA and will be replicated to InstaceB. URL....Now we want we will have instanceC on the Site B and data will be writen from the application available on Site B, will be replicated to the instance on the Site A as replica.
View 6 Replies View RelatedHello, everyone:
I want to write a query to check a remote shared drive. The shared drive is mapped as T drive in my local. I run the statement,
EXEC master.. xp_cmdshell 'DIR C:'
It works. If I change to T drive like,
EXEC master.. xp_cmdshell 'DIR T:'
It dosen't work and returns,
"The system cannot find the path specified."
But I run DIR T: in DOS prompt, it works.
Any help will be great appreciated.
Thanks a lot.
ZYT
I have an Access2000 app placed on a shred drive. The problem i am having is that users leave it opened and take long breaks. Sometimes they leave it overnight. I would like to make corrections to the form but can't. How can I save and close all users. I would like to send a message telling all users to save any changes and give them 1 minute before shutting down.
Thanks
Is this possible? I can only seem to restore when the *.bak is on a local drive which is ridiculous. I'm sure this translates to other operations in addition to restoring databases...
View 7 Replies View RelatedI know , it is not going to work , just wondering if anyone could give any reasons for that. Whether it was intentional constraint or just internally compact edition was designed in particular way which makes such a usage not possible. It is a pity that it doesn't work that way as it would be much easier transitional path for many Visual Foxpro , MS Access applications.
In my case I just want READ-ONLY database either for multi-user access via shared drive or stand-alone on local drive.
I've one table which is contains sales Tax data and I need to send data(only for past month) to accounting person by every end of the month for Example. Today is July/1/2015 so I need to send data for month of June/2015.
Is there anyway I can setup a job to send a data. Also I am not able to send large file using OUTLOOK so is there any other Tool to send a data?
Hi
I am having an Access database on a shared network drive which has read/write access rights on the that shared network drive.
When I try to Access data through the linked server it gives me gives me a message box saying you do not have permissions to view the data.
Also if i try to use xp_cmdshell to copy over the mdb file to my local drive it say 'Access denied'
But when I copy (through command prompt) the same file to another network drive or my local drive where I have full control the linked server can connect sucessfully.
The problem is the i cannot have 'full control' permissions on shared drive where my database resides.
Has anybody encountered this problem....
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Urgent
Puru
can we join a node in a windows cluster which is already in a different cluster?
We have this requirement as we need to setup readable secondary ( always on AG) on the third node.
We are planning to change all IPs of PRODUCTION Failover Cluster Setup. In my cluster setup ... we have 2 Physical Nodes with windows-2008, Roles are MSDTC and SQL-2008R2.
IP change for:
1. Both Nodes(Physical)
2. MSDTC
3. SQL Server
4. windows Cluster
So Almost... All IPs are going to change.
Im DBA here, I need to take care of SQL cluster and MSDTC. But I haven't performed this activity before.So I'm worrying about Impacts and consequences of this change. steps how should I perform this activity.
I have Active Active Cluster with 2 nodes , on the first node I can execute the queries, but when I trying to execute query or just open a DB to see the tables I getting error:"The Database XX is not accessible. (ObjectExplorer)".
View 5 Replies View RelatedEnvironment: Windows Advanced Server with SP2. SQL 2K Enterprise edition with SP2.
There are three disk drives in my shared array named E:, F:, and H:.
When I use EM (Enterprise Manager) to create a job (like a backup job), the drop down box contains only drive F:.
Drive F: was the drive specified during the install process for data files.
Drive C: and D: also exist. Drive D: was specified during the install process for the program files.
It seems to me that drop down boxes in EM which show disk drives should actually show me the following drives: C:, D:, E:, F:, and H:.
Any ideas why EM may not be showing all the disk drives.
TIA solart
Hi
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.....
J
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.
View 4 Replies View RelatedGood Morning guys n Gals.
New user on these forums, so basically, hey, how are yas?
I have a bit of a situation, and have done a search - although not much info has turned up relating to my situation (maybe my search was just useless).
Anyways, basically, I run SQL Server 6.5 on NT4 server.
The disks were striped - not RAIDED.
What happened was, the 4th disk died, and we replaced it with a new blank drive.
Now, I am left with two DAT files (log and data) for my database.
I cannot remember how large these were created as it was many years ago.
I have no backups.
Reseting the status hasn't worked, also I have tried creating a new DB / Devices (in size similar to those reported in windows), and "moving" the devices to point to the original ones, but no luck: and thus was wondering if anybody had any hint / tips or ideas?
Cheers,
Jamie
I've added a new drive to a clustered instance of sql 2000. Go to the node the instance is active on, the drive shows up. But...try to add a backup device that lives on the new drive (which was, after all, the whole point of the exercise) and SQL Server is blind to that drive. I have vague recollections of it recognizing the clustered drives when i set up all this a couple years ago. Could it be that it recognizes all the drives it'll ever recognize at the moment of installation? Anybody know?
thanks,
Garth
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I am amazed to see this morning that log file consuming whole disk space even though the database is in simple recovery mode.
What could be the reasons to fill in the space even in simple recovery mode??
HI guys, long time since I've been here ...
Anyway, I have a question and hope to receive some suggestions.
We have a cluster installation of SQL 2000 Ent SP3a and we had a logical drive Y: on a second incative node: N2. SQL Right now is running of the active node: N1. We moved the Y: drive from Node N2 to the N1 one and it's fully functional and healthy. The only thing SQL doesn't see it. So ti has to be restarted.
Is there a way to refresh a list of logical drives on SQL without having the service to be restarted? (it's not an option for us meantime, it's our prod env.)
Any suggestions appreciated.
Thx
Dim
Hi
I have configured a cluster SQL 2005 (active/passive) and added 4 LUNS to that cluster the cluster works without problems.
However I am having issues backing and restoring on 2 drives. I can complete the operation ( a resotre of 100MB ) DB in less than a minute if i use the 2 drives but it takes about an hour if i use the other 2 drives. The wait type is ansynchronous_IOcompletion and backupthread in dm_exec_requests.
I have detached the drives and reformatted it but stil lsame issues any help
Anup
As part of a migration of data to a new SAN I have hit a bit of a snag in the migration. In summary what will happen is user database data files will be moved from one LUN (say drive F:) to a new LUN (say drive G:). Once all the data is migrated, plan is to remove dependency of that drive from SQL server and remove the drive and delete the LUN. So far, so good.
However one of the LUNs (drive D:) destined to be deleted also hosts the instance default directories, i.e. everything under MSSQL11.MSSQLSERVER (Data, Backups, FTData, JOBS, etc). BOL has articles on how to migrate system databases, including tempdb. But there is no guidance that I could find on how to relocate other folders. There are forums where users have listed registry changes, etc that can achieve this but these are steps I am unwilling to take on a production server.
So my plan is:
1) Add new drive to cluster (drive E:), sufficiently large enough to host instance default folders
2) Shutdown SQL server
3) Copy all default folders to new drive
4) Swap drive letters so that new drive is now D:
5) Start SQL server and if everything works, delete the original drive (which is now drive E:).
I'm trying to build a new cluster with SQL Server 2K Enterprise onWindows 2003 server. When I run the install, I tell it to put theprogram files on the D: (local) drive and the data/log files on shareddrives. However, after the installation is complete, almost all thefiles go in the C: drive in program filesMicrosoft SQL Server, ratherthan the D: drive (it does create a few files on D:). We've experiencedthis on more than one server build.Anyone know any way around this?Post answers publicly, please, or email tosteven.wechsler(at)mtvstaff.com (the posting email address is hosed).Thanks,Steve
View 1 Replies View RelatedI 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.
[code]....
I went as far as giving the folder full access to everyone temporarily and received the same error.
can sql server 2005 access files on a shred folder (which sql 2000 was not able)?
thnaks in advance
peleg
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I need to copy a just-created bak file to another drive after the backup task has completed. I don't see anything in the job toolbox which works with file system operations like this. But still it must be a common need..There are ways to script this or use third part tools but I am looking for something native to the sql server 2012 SSMS toolset, if possible.
An alternate approach would be to run the backup job again, after the main backup, and change the destination to the alternate location. But I was thinking that another backup job would probably invoke more overhead on the server than a simple file copy operation. If I do end up taking this approach I could also use the cleanup task to toss older bak files in the alt dir.
Hello,
I have several packages that share one configuration file located at a network location. Up until i installed sp2 everything worked fine, but now the packages "loose" the path to the configurationfile. It is replaced by some c:programsqlserverpackage.... path where no config file is located.
I can run packages if i specify the config file explicetly, but I really don't wanna do that, since it will not work in the context i'm working.
I am using the wizard to install my packages.
Anyone with similar problems ? Any help appriciated.
Note: This is not the issue that sp1 solved (for me at least). =)
Hi All
This is a Pearler !!. SQL 7 and NT 4
Site A and B are 30 miles apart
"Site A" SQL 7.0 Cluster with Drives on Shared Storage.
"Site B" SQL Server Cluster with Drives on Shared Storage
Both Configured as Active/Active (8+ databases <100GB total)
How can I get the DB's (all) from Site A and allow a DIFFERNET cluster to control them.
Basically, I want to move all DB's from "Site A" and bring them into "Site B" with all relevant data ..ie master DB etc . I have a time window of 90 Mins and I cannot lose one single piece of data.........( I need to lie down now)
Help would be apprecitated)
We have an HA configuration with an Active-Passive Cluster / Shared Disk SAN which is working great. I have been looking for how to replicate the information to our DR site. We have many databases (some are more static vs. other transactional). I had some questions:Would it make sense to configure a snapshot for the static databases? Is that possible from a clustered environment using it as the publisher?Would it make more sense to configure the clustered environment to use transactional replication? Is it possible from a clustered primary?Is log shipping too archaic?
View 4 Replies View RelatedCluster services gives the high availability needed - that is great.But I have never seen any discussion about what happens when a nodefails - what do you do to get everything back to the active-passivetandem.I imagine there is not much difference in terms of recovery procedurefor either active or passive node. So I'm just going to make up ascenario that we have encountered. The system hard drive (not theshared disk) on primary node fails. Cluster fails over to the passivenode. Following are the problems I have at hand:-After installing windows, I need to install driver and configure thepermission to access the SAN. There is no way I could do it since thesecondary node has exclusive access to the disks.-Imagine I got that working, is there anyway to install SQL so SQLwould know this server used to be the primary node and attach the DBand translog automatically-Finally, there is no proper way to apply SQL 2000 service pack 3a.Originally when the cluster was fully functional, the service pack wasapplied to active node and that automatically upgrades passive node.Now we have a machine without 3a and a machine with 3a alreadyinstalled. See any problem?Consider all of the above as this one big question: What is a properprocedure to restore a cluster when one of the node goes down? Whetherit's the active or passive node.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have inherited two separate SQL clusters. One cluster instance is called DESQLSC1INST1 and the other is MKSQLSC1INST1.
On MKSQLSC1INST1 I can connect by using MKSQLSC1INST1, MKSQLSC1 and the IP address that the cluster is running on.
On DESQLSC1INST1 I can only connect using DESQLSC1INST1.
I have checked configuration manager but it does not show me how this is set up.
Is there another way to configure this?