Scheduled Task “Could not start” when installing SQL Server on a Windows Cluster
I ran into this error while deploying SQL Server 2005 Enterprise to a two-node Windows Server 2003 cluster. The SQL Server installation checked all the prereqs with no problems, and as soon as it was...
View ArticleAccessing a clustered SQL Server instance without the instance name
When I clustered SQL Server 2005 the first time, it bothered me that I had to access each clustered instance using both the cluster DNS name and the instance name. If my SQL Cluster is called...
View ArticleSlow SQL Server queries over a linked server from Windows Server 2008
We recently ran into an issue where linked server queries where sometimes taking significantly longer than they should have – queries that executed in under a second on the source server took two...
View ArticleClustering walkthrough for SQL Server 2008 on Windows 2008
I recently stumbled across a great walk-through for clustering SQL Server on newer versions of Windows. It’s really thorough – everything from setting up iSCSI (in this case, to simulate a shared disk...
View ArticleChanging SQL Server data file locations in clustered instance using service SIDs
Recently I added a second LUN to a clustered instance of SQL Server to isolate the logs files (and another for the TempDB) and I mounted them to an empty NTFS folder as I’ve done before, but when I...
View ArticleClearing up Windows Cluster terminology
I wanted to clear up some terminology around Windows Clusters that seems to cause a bit of confusion. I’ve stumbled across a few questions on StackOverflow and Experts-Exchange that seem to have some...
View ArticleCluster terminology – What “Active/Active” actually means
As a follow-up to my last entry (attempting to clear up some Windows Clustering terminology), I’ve found an article that makes another distinction that I forgot to include – the difference between an...
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