A few weeks ago, I was trying to figure out why my Korg X50 music workstation was not sending MIDI data to my MacBook Pro. While the Korg X50 has its own sound library and can function without the MacBook, the use of software made it easy for me to do audio recordings. But what […]
PostMaking Sense of the Windows Server Failover Cluster Debug Logs For Mere Mortals
WARNING: If you’ve gone thru part 1, part 2 and part 3 of this series of blog posts and your SQL Server databases running on a Windows Server Failover Cluster (WSFC) are still offline and unavailable, I would recommend escalating it to a more senior engineer or calling Microsoft support before reading further. Regardless […]
PostGenerating the Windows Server Failover Cluster Debug Logs
WARNING: If you’ve gone thru part 1, part 2 and part 3 of this series of blog posts and your SQL Server databases running on a Windows Server Failover Cluster (WSFC) are still offline and unavailable, I would recommend escalating it to a more senior engineer or calling Microsoft support before reading further. Regardless […]
PostReviewing the SQL Server Error Logs to Find the Two Most Common Keywords That Can Cause Availability Issues
SQL Server Failover Clustered Instances (FCI) and Availability Groups (AG) depend a lot on Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC). Understanding how the underlying WSFC platform works can help us maintain availability of our databases This blog post is the second in a series that talks about the process that I follow when troubleshooting availability of SQL Server failover […]
PostExploring The Windows Server Failover Cluster Dependency Report
SQL Server Failover Clustered Instances (FCI) and Availability Groups (AG) depend a lot on Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC). Understanding how the underlying WSFC platform works can help us maintain availability of our databases This blog post is the first in a series that talks about the process that I follow when troubleshooting availability of SQL Server failover […]