hmmm.....

I just want to see if the client is connecting to the database as this will use the listener and prove the connection details are correct - can you start...

Looks like you've got both Oracle 10g client and 11g client installed. The 10g client knows where to find the database but the 11g client doesn't - can you...

if you've installed the oracle client you should have both tnsping and sqlplus.

at a command prompt, type

[font="Courier New"]tnsping MyDatabase[/font]

this should return some info about the connection...

No listener means that the Oracle server side could not be contacted from the client. Have you tested the connection via sqlplus or tnsping?

If you want to add another instance you run the setup.exe and go through the installation process again with another IP address etc. You do the install on the...

There are plenty of third-party tools available, most of which have a download for you to trial in your environment. For example, look at the Quest, Redgate and Idera...

Not done it here but with Win2008 clusters you can mix the hardware, on Win2003 it has to be identical. I think you will have to create a...

So if I understand you correctly, you have a single sql login that the application connects to the database with (abc) and then the application has its own level of...

Can you manually start the share resource? Have a look at the cluster.log file - this should have more information in it about why this fails.

As suggested, a bit more info would help - what errors do you see, what are the symptoms etc.

However, you can try looking in eventviewer, the cluster.log, the sql errorlog...

In order for SQL Server to be able to see the new drives, they need to be added to the cluster group that has SQL Server in it and also...

Can we have some more information on your problem? Like what errors you see and what you have tried...

Yes you can change both the IP address and Name - for both you take the instance offline and change the properties in the cluster administrator. For the SAN...

select * from sys.dm_exec_sessions

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