Hello,
I am a C++/C# developer my SQL skills are very limited.
I have a database set up for mirroring and I would like to get an e-mail notification whenever an Automatic Failover occurs. Can anyone show me how to do this using SQLServer 2005? Please provide T-SQL script sample if possible!
Thanks,
-Agustin
We have a Prinicipal, a Mirror and a Witness server. We have automatic failover configured between the Prinicipal and Mirrored server. When we stop MMSQL service on Prinicipal, not all the databases failover to the Mirrored instance.
Any suggestions would be welcomed as we have a tight deadline to get this in Production.
Hi there!
I use different udls for a website which is partly asp pages and partly aspx pages.
Every database is mirrored, so each udl indicates a "failover partner". However we decided recently that one of the database would not be mirrored anymore. For this database we still use in the udl a "failover partner" to redirect the connection to the second database in case of a failover. For the asp pages the failover works fine even if the database is not mirrored, but it doesn't work for the aspx pages.
It would be great if anyone had an idea why the behaviour is not the same for the aspx pages, and if we can still use a "failover partner" in udls even if the database is not mirrored.. if not, what should we use to connect to another database?
Any help is welcome!
idel
We have a mirror setup, with a third server that needs to be linked to this mirrored setup. The link server setup only allows you to specify the primary server. How will the linked server setup know what the secondary server is? Thanks
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i am new to sqlserver 2000.i have list of email id in a table. need to fetch that emailid and send mail to the appropriate id's.any body knows how to write job schedule for this task.Ideas are welcome
Hi there,
I am testing the db mirroring, making sure it will auto failover. I've stopped the SQL services on my principal and then I looked at the mirror db is says it's restoring. It stayed like that for 10 min before I enabled the mirroring again. Anyone knows why it's not failing over??????
Here's my setup: SQL 2005 Standard, Server 1 Principal, Server 2 Mirror & Witness.
Hi there,
We've recently set up a Principle, Mirror and Witness configuration with the Mirror and Witness in a separate building to the Principle. All three are part of the same domain (DMZ) and are different servers, the buildings are connected via a fiber optic cable. All servers and SQL Server instances are logged in with the same domain admin account DMZesAdmin.
Mirroring is all set-up and the databases are synchronized. Every once in a while some (not all, normally 6 out of 15) databases will switch roles and become active on the mirror. The SQL Server mirroring monitor job then reports:
Date 25/01/2007 12:37:01
Log Job History (Database Mirroring Monitor Job)
Step ID 1
Server DMZSQL01
Job Name Database Mirroring Monitor Job
Step Name
Duration 00:00:02
Sql Severity 16
Sql Message ID 32038
Operator Emailed
Operator Net sent
Operator Paged
Retries Attempted 0
Message
Executed as user: DMZesadmin. An internal error has occurred in the database mirroring monitor. [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error 32038). The step failed.
I have no idea, what causes the failover, it could be a slow network or a bad set-up, can anyone give me some ideas of what to do to track down the problem or any experience of what could be causing this, it happens randomly every day or three. No warning and if I go to the mirror and failover back to the principle again then it's all just fine. However I don't want half my databases working on 1 server and half on the other.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Ed
UPDATE:
I've just been looking at the logs on my Mirror and at the same time it reports in this order
Error: 1479, Severity: 16, State: 1.
The mirroring connection to "TCP://DMZSQL01.dmz.local:5022" has timed out for database "WARCMedia" after 10 seconds without a response. Check the service and network connections.
Database mirroring is inactive for database 'WARCMedia'. This is an informational message only. No user action is required.
Recovery is writing a checkpoint in database 'WARCMedia' (41). This is an informational message only. No user action is required.
The mirrored database "WARCMedia" is changing roles from "PRINCIPAL" to "MIRROR" due to Failover.
Database mirroring is inactive for database 'WARCMedia'. This is an informational message only. No user action is required.
...
This looks like a time out, is there any way to set the TimeOut threashold for Database mirroring or set retry intervals??
Setup Configuration:
3 servers
- PRINCIPAL IP: 10.2.5.31 - DNS Lookup: db-server-2.mosside.choruscall.com
- MIRROR IP: 10.2.5.30 - DNS Lookup: sql-mirror.mosside.choruscall.com
- WITNESS ip: 10.2.5.32 - DNS Lookup: sql-witness.mosside.choruscall.com
Each Server is running Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition with SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition.
All server instances are enabled for remote connections(By default they are not).
All servers have the flag 1400 traceon and have been restarted.
PORT 5022 is unrestricted on network.
The server instances are connecting via certificates. Each server has an endpoint for the certificates to to connect on.
Certificate Setup Proceedure:
Principal_Host:
1. Create Master Key with Password
2. Create certificate with subject
3. Create endpoint for certificate (Listener_Port = 5022, Listener_ip = all)
to connect on for database_mirroring
4. Backup Certificate (principal_cert.cer)
5. Take backed up certificate to Mirror_Host
(Reapeat Steps 1-5 for Witness and Mirror)
Mirror_Host: Create Certificate on Mirror_Host for inbound connections from Principal:
6.(On Mirror_Host) Create Login for Principal using same password in step 1 (principal_login)
7. Create user for login just created. (principal_user)
8. Create local certificate for Principal on Mirror using certificate generated by principal.
ex: Create Certificate Principal_cert Authorization Principal_user FROM FILE='c:principal_cert.cer'
9. (If an endpoint has been created already on the mirror)Grant connectiion to the login:
ex: Grant connect on endpoint::mirror_endpoint to principal_login
Repeat Steaps 6-9 for Principal and Witness Servers accordingly.
10. Import Database to SQL Server 2005 Principal Instance
11. Backup Database to disk with format
12. Backup Database log file to disk with format
13. Copy backups to mirror
14. Restore Database and log file with norecovery on Mirror_Host
15. Configre Database for Database Mirroring on Principal Server
There are two ways to do this. Via the wizzard or via the Transact-SQL window.
Using the wizzard appears to work since I started using FQDN.
PROBLEM:
After configuration, everythig appears to be correct. That is, the principal displays
that it is the principal and it is synchronized with the mirror. The mirror also displays that it is the
mirror and it is synchronized with the principal and it is in recovery. If I failover manually, the mirror
becomes the principal and the principal becomes the mirror (They form a quarum). If I disconnect the principal
from the network, the mirror is supposed to form a quarum with the witness and promote itself to principal status.
This is not what is happening. The witness recognizes that the principal is down and logs that info into its log file.
The Mirror attempts to contact the witness but cannot log onto the machine. The Mirror Logs the following:
Error: 1438, Severity: 16, State: 2.
The server instance Witness rejected configure request; read its error log file for more information.
The reason 1451, and state 3, can be of use for diagnostics by Microsoft.
This is a transient error hence retrying the request is likely to succeed.
Correct the cause if any and retry.
<<<<<<<MIRROR SERVER >>>>>>>>
2007-09-06 15:08:45.32 spid23s Error: 1438, Severity: 16, State: 2.
2007-09-06 15:08:45.32 spid23s The server instance Witness rejected configure request; read its error log file for more information. The reason 1451, and state 3, can be of use for diagnostics by Microsoft. This is a transient error hence retrying the request is likely to succeed. Correct the cause if any and retry.
2007-09-06 15:09:05.32 spid23s Error: 1438, Severity: 16, State: 2.
2007-09-06 15:09:05.32 spid23s The server instance Witness rejected configure request; read its error log file for more information. The reason 1451, and state 3, can be of use for diagnostics by Microsoft. This is a transient error hence retrying the request is likely to succeed. Correct the cause if any and retry.
2007-09-06 15:09:25.33 spid23s Error: 1438, Severity: 16, State: 2.
2007-09-06 15:09:25.33 spid23s The server instance Witness rejected configure request; read its error log file for more information. The reason 1451, and state 3, can be of use for diagnostics by Microsoft. This is a transient error hence retrying the request is likely to succeed. Correct the cause if any and retry.
2007-09-06 15:09:45.34 spid23s Error: 1438, Severity: 16, State: 2.
2007-09-06 15:09:45.34 spid23s The server instance Witness rejected configure request; read its error log file for more information. The reason 1451, and state 3, can be of use for diagnostics by Microsoft. This is a transient error hence retrying the request is likely to succeed. Correct the cause if any and retry.
2007-09-06 15:10:05.35 spid23s Error: 1438, Severity: 16, State: 2.
2007-09-06 15:10:05.35 spid23s The server instance Witness rejected configure request; read its error log file for more information. The reason 1451, and state 3, can be of use for diagnostics by Microsoft. This is a transient error hence retrying the request is likely to succeed. Correct the cause if any and retry.
2007-09-06 15:10:25.36 spid23s Error: 1438, Severity: 16, State: 2.
<<<<<<< WITNESS SERVER >>>>>>>>
2007-09-06 14:19:55.90 spid52 The Database Mirroring protocol transport is now listening for connections.
2007-09-06 15:07:11.64 spid24s Error: 1479, Severity: 16, State: 1.
2007-09-06 15:07:11.64 spid24s The mirroring connection to "TCP://db-server-2:5022" has timed out for database "APS_SQL_DEV" after 10 seconds without a response. Check the service and network connections.
2007-09-06 15:07:43.20 Server Error: 1474, Severity: 16, State: 1.
2007-09-06 15:07:43.20 Server Database mirroring connection error 4 '64(The specified network name is no longer available.)' for 'TCP://db-server-2:5022'.
2007-09-06 15:08:06.03 spid9s Error: 1474, Severity: 16, State: 1.
2007-09-06 15:08:06.03 spid9s Database mirroring connection error 2 'Connection attempt failed with error: '10060(A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond.)'.' for 'TCP://db-server-2:5022'.
Hello,
we're running a mirrored database with High Availability for Automatic failover including a Witness instance for a web application.
When doing a manual failover on the database in Management studio, the roles are switched correctly and the database is in "Principal, Synchronized" and "Mirror, Synchronized/Restoring" mode. The web application has no problems switching servers by using client failover with the jdbc driver. There is no problem accessing the database with Management Studio.
However, if we stop the SQL service on the Principal server the role is automatically failed over to the Mirror server by the Witness. The database is then in the mode "Principal, Disconnected" which should be fine. However, accessing the database from the web application or with Management Studio yields some strange results. It is not possible to write to the database, and reading from the database works inconsistently (the web application seems like it can do it, but not from the Management Studio).
Starting the SQL service on the former Principal server makes the database go into mode "Mirror, Synchronizing/Restoring" and "Principal, Synchronizing". And it will stay that way indefinitely. There are not that many updates/transactions made to the database that can make it stay in this state, especially if you can't write to the database in the first place.
The next step taken after being stuck in this state is to stop the SQL service on the Mirror (former Principal), restart the service on the Principal (former Mirror). Accessing the database now works. The database is in mode "Principal, Disconnected". Starting the SQL service on the Mirror (former Principal) makes the database go into the normal "Principal, Synchronized" and "Mirror, Synchronized/Restoring" mode. Access to database is normal.
The same erroneous behaviour can be observed by unplugging the network cable on the Principal server, so it seems like we can only get a smooth transition by doing a manual failover.
Any ideas on what might be the problem? Has anybody experienced a similar situation?
I'd like to understand why it is not possible to automatic Failover Availability Groups using Failover Cluster Instances. I think it would be great for DR and HA. Do you understand why that limitation exists?
The link [URL] ....
SQL Server Failover Cluster Instances (FCIs) do not support automatic failover by availability groups, so any availability replica that is hosted by an FCI can only be configured for manual failover.
Hi all,
I need help to send notificaiton mails as soon as my active sql switch to passive one..
sp3a : 2000 Ent Ed.
windows 2003 Ent Ed.
Cluster: A/P
thanks in advance..
Regards
Deepak
Hi all,
What kind of notification / alert can I get when a failover occurs?
I need to refresh SqlDependency after a failover.
Thanks,
Avi
I have setup a mirror configuration with a witness to be able to use the automatic failover. The principal is DBSP01, the mirror is DBSP02 and the witness is DBSP03. I have an application running an DBCP01. When the mirroring is working, the application can connect to the database on DBSP01. I disconnect dbsp01 from the network, so that DBSP02 becomes the principal. When I try to connect the application to the database on DBSP02, the login fails. Whithout the mirroring I was able to logon to DBSP02, but as soon as it is part of the mirroring, I'm not able to connect to it anymore, whatever the state of the database is. What could be the problem? Can anybody help?
Remco
I am getting alerts as Availability group not ready for automatic failover , how to check and resolve the issue ?
How to check the databases status whether they are in sync unsync in High availability ?
I have a 3 node 2014 AlwaysOn setup. The primary and secondary are set for automatic failover. The third node, of course, is manual (until 2016). The 2 nodes with are automatic are sitting in one datacenter, the third is in another. If the first datacenter was to go down, I would manually have to failover to the third node? What's the normal process here for having two datacenters and ensuring the availability group is always available?
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1) should the script create a new login first and then run sp_change_users_login with option update_one , or should sp_change_users_login using option
Auto_Fix create the missing logins?
2) But what is the password of these users? is it initially NULL , as a consequence of sp_change_users_login? What about the SIDs?
3) Or should we bypass sp_change_users_login altogether and use
CREATE LOGIN <loginname> WITH PASSWORD = <password>, SID = <sid for same login on principal server>,...as described in http://blogs.msdn.com/chadboyd/archive/2007/01/05/login-failures-connecting-to-new-principal-after-failover-using-database-mirroring.aspx
4) What is the event that would trigger this script to run after the aitomatic failover ?
Is there a definitive MIcrosoft agreed apon and recommended method to tackle this?
I'm looking for a solution to have cross data center automatic failover in the event of a data center loss for highly critical databases. I would like to have local HA and also automatic failover to the DR site. This does not seem possible with AlwaysOn.
Is my only option for automatic cross data center failover to build a node in one data center and a node in the other data center with a node/FS at a third data center in order to maintain quorum? I'd like to have local HA in the mix but that doesn't seem possible.What pattern for the highest data security and also availability?
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Date,Source,Severity,Message
10/27/2015 10:44:20,spid37s,Unknown,AlwaysOn Availability Groups: Waiting for local Windows Server Failover Clustering node to come online. This is an informational message only. No user action is required.
10/27/2015 10:44:20,spid37s,Unknown,AlwaysOn Availability Groups: Local Windows Server Failover Clustering node started.
[code]....
what need to be change existing AO configuration?
Is there any way to trigger an event (ie. call a procedure/job/etc.) when/if an AG fails over?
Not looking to use agent alerts.
I have setup a database mirroring session with witness - MachineA is the principal, MachineB is the mirror, and MachineC is the witness. Each SQL Server instance is hosted on its own machine. The mirroring is working correctly. If I submit data to the database on MachineA, and then unplug the network cable on MachineA, MachineB automatically becomes the principal, and I can see the data that I originally submitted to MachineA on MachineB. All the settings are showing correctly in Management Studio.
My issue is with the SQL Native Client and a front-end application that needs to make use of this database. I have setup my front-end application to use the ODBC client and specified the failover server in both the ODBC setup and the connection string. Here is the connection string that I am using :
Provider=ODBC;Database=master;DSN=MachineA;Failover Partner=MachineB;
Everything works perfectly on my front-end application when MachineA is the principal. If I unplug the network cable on MachineA, MachineB becomes the principal, and the failover occurs correctly on the database side. The problem is that my front-end application is not able to query the database on MachineB.
BUT - if I plug the network cable back in on MachineA (making the database on MachineA the mirror), the front-end application now works and can access the principal database on MachineB. I wrote a quick tester application to verify what I am seeing, and I am convinced that this is what is happening. The mirroring is working perfectly, and everything is setup correctly. The SQL Native Client is setup correctly. The problem is that the automatic failover to MachineB that is built into the SQL Native Client only works if both servers are plugged in.
In this scenario, when I plug both servers in, I know that the front-end app is definitely pulling from MachineB (since the mirror database on MachineA is in recovery mode, it's unavailable, and the front-end app displays the server that it is pulling data from).
Am I using an out-dated SQL Native Client? The version number displayed in the ODBC configuration page is 2005.90.2047.00, and is dated 4/14/2006. Has anyone experienced this issue? I'm guessing that it's a problem in the SQL Native client, since the mirroring really seems to be working correctly.
Thanks,
Bill
I have set up SQL Mail on a SQL 7.0 box and I can successfully schedule tasks and receive e-mails from them. However, when I try to get mail notification from a scheduled DTS package I run into problems and no mail is sent. Under Profile Name the only item selectable is Microsoft Outlook. I've tried selecting this as well as leaving the profile blank and nothing seems to work. We use POP3 server and Microsoft Messaging. Our corporate e-mail system is Notes so we forward mail through the POP3 server via Internet mail to our Lotus Notes system.
Any suggestions so that we could get our DTS mail notification working? Anything I could try that I haven't?
Thanks!
Hello,
I have a problem with the notification. I have enabled Database mail and i have created an Operator.
Under SQL Server AgentJobs and then in the job properties i have enabled notification but i don`t receive a mail. Test e-mail works fine but "real" e-mail not.
I have also tried with the Database Maintenance Wizard but even then it just not work.
I have noticed that others have experienced the same problem but i have seen no solution yet.
Could you please help me? What can cause this problem? What`s the best i can do to start searching for the solution? Thanks!
Is there a way for an automated job to e-mail or net send to multiple locations on failure or completion?
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I have to send an automatic e-mail based on database table .Could any body help me
how to write stored procedure and where to execute it.How to send an automatic e-mail through sql server?
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Raja.
Hi,
I have to send an automatic mail alert from sql server.
I have to send mail based on one table.In that particular table
expiry date as one column and I have to send mail each time it
has to check the expirydate column automatically and send mail.
please help me and could any body can send me piece of code.
Thankyou in advance
regards,
Raja.
hi,
I have a report based on a cube. This report is on my report server. Now I want to make a new subsrciption to send this report every day via e-mail. The report also has parameters with default values.
But when I trie to maka a new subcription an error occures. It says that the login information for the analysis services database are not saved on the report server.
I tried to change the setting of the datasource to integrated security and so on, but it did not help.
Does somebody know how to do it?
JF
I'm trying to create a SSIS package that will send me a email when the package runs successfully and when it fails. My entire package runs successfully until it get to the Send Mail Task, where it always fails. Do I have to configure something on the database end or what? Thank you in advance.
Using SQL Server 2005
Using sample database AdventureWorks
I'm looking at a setup where they have server1 and server2 in a mirroring relationship with automatic failover.
Server1 is the principalThey are using transactional replication to replicate asingle databse to server3 is AWS.Distribution database is on Server1All Agents (log reader, snapshot, distributor) run on Server1Server2 has not been set up for replication...My understanding is that in this set up you would normallly place the distribution database on a separate server and enable publication on the mirror, Server2.
What happens if they failover? Replication would stop, and presumably records added while the mirror is the active database would not be marked for replication?How would they recover? Failback and reinintialize
I'm having a problem with SQL2005 Database mirroring.
I have an ASP application that loops for a certain amount of interations and in each iteration I create a SQL Connection object and use the failover partner in the connection string. The object then writes a simple record and then the connection is closed and the process starts again.
About half way through my loop I force a failover to the server mentioned as the failover partner in the connection string. At this point my application encounters a SQL Exception error and the application fails.
I read in this article, http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms366199.aspx, that this is expected and that you shoud request a new connection using the same connection string but this isn't working for me and unfortunately no examples are given anywhere.
I would appreciate any help. Thanks
Luis Bonilla
Here is a sample of my code:
Dim k As Integer = 1
Dim constring As String = "Server=SVR01.XXX.XXX.comInstanceName;Failover Partner=SVR02.XXX.XXX.comInstanceName;" _
& "Database=test;" _
& "Integrated Security=SSPI;"
Do Until k = 60
Using con As New SqlConnection(constring)
Dim cmd As New SqlCommand()
Try
con.Open() '<--------This is where the exception occurs
Catch ex As SqlException
Dim en As String = ex.ErrorCode
Dim em As String = ex.Message
Dim emm As String = ex.Number
Dim enn As Integer = ex.State
End Try
lblprimary.Text = "Current Primary Database = " & con.DataSource
cmd.Connection = con
cmd.CommandText = "INSERT INTO SystemsTest (FirstName, LastName)VALUES ('SQLWriter" & CStr(k) & "','" & con.DataSource & "')"
Try
cmd.ExecuteNonQuery()
Catch
lblresult.Text = "Results = Error with record number " & CStr(k)
End Try
con.Close()
cont:
End Using
Sleep(1000) 'For testing
k = k + 1 'For testing
Loop
Simple question, I hope. I need to add a column to a table of a database that is mirrored. How do I have to do that? Do I need to stop mirroring? Is it sufficient to simply pause mirroring? If I make the change on the principal db, what do I need to do the make the same change on the mirror?
Thanks,
I have a mirred database and have snapshot created from the mirroed database. I can do data selecting from the snapshot. But when the pricipal server is down , I can re-active the mirroed database.( I did succesfully upto this). Then I need to restore the database from snapshot and which failing with following error message.
Code Snippet
Msg 5123, Level 16, State 1, Line 3
CREATE FILE encountered operating system error 3(error not found) while attempting to open or create the physical file 'E:sql_datadevitst_mirrorlog st_mirror_log.ldf'.
Msg 5024, Level 16, State 2, Line 3
No entry found for the primary log file in sysfiles1. Could not rebuild the log.
Msg 5028, Level 16, State 2, Line 3
The system could not activate enough of the database to rebuild the log.
Msg 3013, Level 16, State 1, Line 3
RESTORE DATABASE is terminating abnormally.