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MS SQL Server 2000: Create an Off-site Standby Server
This post is an extension to the “Poor Man’s Log Shipping” post written earlier on this blog. To summarize, the main server uses log shipping to maintain a standby server on-site. It also creates a...
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Database Cluster with Windows 2003 and SQL Server 2005
For now this post is a collection of articles on how to set up clustering. Later, once I have more first-hand knowledge, I will write these guides myself. Install Windows Cluster Step-by-Step Guide to...
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Standby Database Out of Sync
Our setup has SQL Server 2000 running in Log Shipping mode for high availability. One day we received a message saying: “Standby database has been out-of-sync for x minutes”. To check for the job which...
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SQL Server 2005 Error: Exception from Hresult
On a SQL Server 2005 (Standard x64) two-node active-passvie cluster using Windows 2003 (Enterprise x64), we tried to create a backup maintenance plan. Lo and behold! We got the error: “cannot show...
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SQL Server Memory Woes
Consider this: a server with 8 GB of RAM, Windows 2003 64-bit, and SQL Server 2005 x64 had 100 MB available at its lowest point (600 MB at its highest), as revealed by performance monitoring. There was...
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