The provisioning team gives us VMs with SAN storage that is provided to them by the storage team. It is a big black box to me but thanks for...

Thanks Lynn. I'll do that. Several management...

Still not clear on Standard Edition and the definition of a user or a device. Do application accounts count as users and do application servers count as devices?

So, in the...

Think I found the answer to the Enterprise question here. It looks if all cores are licensed, unlimited instances within a number of OS's up to the number of physical...

Thanks for the input Perry.

PHXHoward (12/6/2013)

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With a single node in each data center, a witness file server would only be of value if it was in a third location

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That's not...

SQLSACT (12/6/2013)

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I think you're confusing failover with quorum voting.

The quorum setup determines how many nodes need to be up in order for the entire cluster to stay up.

I would recommend...

Is there by change another more appropriate forum where I can post and where people can share their experiences?

Now it is back to not working again with listener name.

Connected through SSMS to the active listener IP and it succeeded.

Great question. I am trying to accomplish the same thing.

EDIT:

In my case, I had changed the RegisterAllProvidersIP setting and then restarted the listener and found later that it was...

Do you mean use the Foreach loop to rename the file and then use the new fixed file name to load?

That would work too.

Thanks

That is a great solution! Thanks Koen.

I've...

kenneth.mofokeng (9/26/2013)

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SQL Server will not kill or drop any connection/process unless the service is initiated for a restart or referred from the client process

A sleeping session is waiting for its...

Maybe,

Not every database that you want to log ship is part of an AG.

Not every server you want to log ship to is part of the same cluster.

Not every server...

Thanks happycat. I'm going to advise the application team to use a service account instead.