Recovery :: AlwaysOn Secondary Operational State Unknown
Sep 30, 2013
I recently configured SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability group using two nodes - a primary and one secondary read only replica. The group is residing on a windows 2012 cluster with an smb file share as the quorum. I am able to successfully failover through SQL and through the windows 2012 cluster. When I look at the group dashboard on the primary server and view the Operational state of each node I notice an odd value. The secondary role server is listed as Unknown. I also noticed that the Availability replicas node icons in object explorer are displaying the same icon on the primary server but on the secondary server, the primary server is shown as a server with a question mark.
Am I missing a permissions setting or is this normal behavior.
For example:
ServerA is the primary
ServerB is the secondary
ServerA lists the servers in Object Explorer as:
ServerA (Primary)ServerB (Secondary)
ServerB lists the servers in Object Explorer as:
ServerA ServerB (Secondary)
The primary is never listed a primary on the secondary server. Again failovers are working properly, but I want to be sure I am not missing a setting somewhere.
I noticed that after a SQL AlwaysOn failover, one of the DB in the secondary replica is stuck in Restoring state. The primary replica shows that it is in a synchronized state. These are the error logs from SSMS. How do I trace the cause of the problem?
Error: 5901, Severity: 16, State: 1. Nonqualified transactions are being rolled back in database for an AlwaysOn Availability Groups state change. Estimated rollback completion: 0%. This is an informational message only. No user action is required Error: 18400, Severity: 16, State: 1.
One or more recovery units belonging to database failed to generate a checkpoint. This is typically caused by lack of system resources such as disk or memory, or in some cases due to database corruption. Examine previous entries in the error log for more detailed information on this failure.
The background checkpoint thread has encountered an unrecoverable error. The checkpoint process is terminating so that the thread can clean up its resources. This is an informational message only. No user action is required.
I have an AlwaysOn Availability group configured between 2 nodes (Synchronous)
Automatic failover was working fine until recently
I can failover between the nodes manually but automatic failover doesn't seem to be working. In my earlier test, I would shut down the SQL Service on the primary and within seconds, the secondary replica would take over. Recently I have performed the same test and the secondary replica enters the resolving state and the DB in unavailable.
I have tried everything here: [URL] ....
The only change I made was changing the availability mode from Synchronous to Asynchronous - Could that be the cause?
I have a two node HA Always on group using a Listener. I would like to force a certain AD group to always be forced to the secondry node as they would only ever need to run select statements. If there an easy way to do this without using logon triggers?
We have a requirement to build SQL environment which will give us local high availability and disaster recovery to second site. We have two sites- Site A & Site B. We are planning to have two nodes at Site A and 2 nodes at Site B. All four nodes will be part of same Windows failover cluster. We will build two SQL Cluster, InstanceA will be clustered between the nodes at Site A Server and InstanceB will be clustered between the nodes at Site B, we will enable Always On Between the InstanceA and InstanceB and will be primary owner where data will be written on InstanceA and will be replicated to InstaceB. URL....Now we want we will have instanceC on the Site B and data will be writen from the application available on Site B, will be replicated to the instance on the Site A as replica.
In always on under availability group server name properties can see the option Readable Secondary. In that for secondary server the Readable Secondary Option is YES and for Primary it is Read-Intent. I believe Read-Intent allows only read only connections and YES allows all user connections.
In always on under availability group server name properties can see the option Readable Secondary. In that for secondary server the Readable Secondary Option is YES and for Primary it is Read-Intent. I believe Read-Intent allows only read only connections and YES allows all user connections.
What exactly it means for the primary and secondary?
We have an issue with a 3 node SQL 2012 Always on availability group. Normal operation is node 1 (primary replica) with node 2 and node 3 as secondary replicas.After some patching, SQL wasn't running on node 1 hence the AG flipped over to node 2. This went unnoticed for some time and the transaction log for one of the AG databases became full on node 2 and node 3. (I think this is because it couldn't commit the transactions on node 1 so couldn't truncate it's t-log?) The DB is using synchronous replication btw.So I started SQL on node 1 and flipped the AG back to node 1 (with a data loss warning but I accepted this).Now the issue is that on node 2 and 3, the DB in question is stuck in a "Reverting / In Recovery" State. I've tried various commands such as ALTER DATABASE SET ONLINE, RESTORE DATABASE WITH RECOVERY etc but these fail stating unable to obtain a lock on the DB.
The weird thing is that on node 1 the state of the DB is "synchronised".how to resolve this issue on node 2 and 3? I've left them overnight (in case they were rolling back transactions, the DB is fairly large) but nothing seems to have happened. remove the DB from the AG in node 2 and 3 and add it back in again, ie recreate the replication?
I installed a script that is suppose to accept paypal, however on trying totest a payment, I get this error msg:ErrorDatabase access errorand I get this error msg emailed to me:Unknown column 'State' in 'field list'Query: 'INSERT INTO `TransactionsMembership` (ID, Sum, State ) VALUESwhat could be swrong, importantly how do I fix it?
I'm using several sort components in my dataflow task (for all now saying uuhh, in normal flow they are all not used, only in lookup failures). I know that the sort component is more than slow and deprecated.
So when I find some rows with a foreign key not yet in my dimTable, I throw them in another branch and sort them / aggregate them for insertion. After that, I wanna lookup again. So I have to wait for all inserts to complete. So I use the sort component, which has to wait for all rows, and sort for my business key. All rows inserted and sorted I lookup again.
This scenario worked for me in a lot of packages with a lot of rows. So why do I post :-)
I now hav another package. As of processing the stream, 1796 rows go to the sort component an wanna be sorted. But nothing happens. Processor goes idle for 0-5% for debugHost. HDD does some reading and writing but nothing really big. TempFiles for sorting are not getting refreshed. Memory Usage is 1.6GB (/3GB is set in boot.ini). No Error Message at all. And this state is for hours an hours.
Any hint why the package is going into that state?
I have a SP that runs on the primary in 18 min and 45 min on the secondary( poorly written cursor,trying to fix it).Both machines are Exactly the same.I ran them in the middle of the night when no one was on the Sec. Node as we use it for reporting.
PLE: 7,000+ AVG Disk sec/write below .01 AVG Disk sec/read below .01 CPU below 5% both machines set a max dop 4
Secondary replica database(setup in async mode) of AlwaysON went in "restricted mode" during weekly reindex operation.
So I have tried below steps
1) Executed following statement on the same secondary replica database where the issue exists
alter database <DBNAME> set multi_user with rollback immediate
but it failed with the error saying "The operation cannot be performed on database "dbname" because it is involved in a database mirroring session or an availability group. Some operations are not allowed on a database that is participating in a database mirroring session or in an availability group. ALTER DATABASE statement failed."
2) Primary database is multi_user but still tried following command on primary replia database(thinking it will replicate)
alter database <DBNAME> set multi_user
but no luck. The secondary alwaysON database shows (synchronizing) as the alwaysON is set in async mode but the command doesn't replicate across secondary
so we are left with the only option to re-setup alwaysON but I want to avoid it as database size is huge..
We had a big issue today during maintenance work in our SQL environment.
So our environment: - 2x SQL Server 2014 Enterprise on Windows Server 2012 R2 (SRV1 and SRV2) -- Both Hyper-V VMs on different Hosts -- Both configured to an Windows Failover Cluster and AlwaysOn Availability Group (AG1) -- AG Listener: AG1_lis -- No shared storage (each Hyper-V Host has its own local storage) -- Asynchronous Mode -- SRV1 is primary, SRV2 is secondary SQL node
What happened? - Shutting down Windows on SRV2 due hardware maintenance - Cluster goes offline, AG1 goes offline -- Error message: "Stopped listening on virtual network name 'AG1_lis'." -- Error message: "The availability group database "DatabaseXY" is changing roles from "PRIMARY" to "RESOLVING" because the mirroring session or availability group failed over due to role synchronization."
Results? - AG1_lis wasn't available for our applications and they stopped working properly because database connection was lost!
I think, I HOPE, this is not the normale behaviour when one node is shutting down (especially the secondary node!)
What happens when an automatic failover occurs, in a two server AlwaysOn Availability Group configuration, where the secondary replica is configured as read-only?
Will it only allow read-only connections, or will it become read-write and can accept INSERT, UPDATES and DELETES when assigned the new role as Primary?
Is it correct that adding a third server/node, that just acts as passive and should be used for automatic failover, to support true HADR, would NOT need another license .. and that licenses would only be required for the previous Primary and Secondary (Read-Only) replicas?
I was working on a job to send me info each morning about database file free space and was noticing some odd things when looking at the log file VLFs for one of my databases in an AlwaysOn availability group.When I run DBCC LOGINFO on the secondary replica for this database, I get what I expect and most VLFs have a status of 0 (indicating the VLFs are reusable or unused). When I run DBCC LOGINFO on the primary replica, all of the VLFs have a status of 2 (active or recoverable).
Since log backups on the secondary replica in AlwaysOn still truncate the log in the primary replica, I would expect that the VLFs in the primary replica would also be mostly in a reusable or unused state. My log file sizes are the same size on each server and my backups are completing successfully. what might be causing the VLFs on the primary replica to have a status of 2 in DBCC LOGINFO when taking log backups from the secondary replica?
I am new to this environment and was asked to ensure that the transaction log shipping for SQL 2005 on W2K3 boxes is working properly. I noticed the db's on the secondary server are show "Restoring..." I am not sure if these were set up in No Recover Mode or Standby Mode. I have no access to the secondary db's. I get an error message when trying to access them (error 927). Monitoring was not set up initially and as you may or may not know can't be turned on after the fact...unless you delete the job and start over.
My question is is "Restoring..." normal and what does it indicate?
I know now that AlwaysOn feature HAS to be installed/configured on a Windows Clustering environment, BUT the secondary replicas, like the Disaster recovery replica residing in a different Data Center HAS to be also in a Windows Clustering environment or can it reside on a SINGLE SQL Server INSTANCE?.
Hi guys, right now I am having insufficient hard disc space at the secondary server (Mirror side) due to the large db that I have. Therefore, I get a new HDD on the server (Assuming located at drive G) and would like to shift the current mirroring db to that new drive. Is it possible for me to do that ? Hope able to get any suggestion from here ASAP. Thanks.
We have a SQL AG configured with 3 servers. 1 Server is on Azure Cloud and 2 are On Prem. The one on Azure is the Primary DB [Copy]. The copies on On Prem are secondary.Databases are more than 6 TB in total. We have already synced 1 copy [One SQL Server] OnPrem with Azure DB. The connection was over a VPN tunnel so it took a almost 8-10 days.. Some failures in between.Now, can I sync my other SQL 2012 server OnPrem with the secondary copy.
We have an AAG environment. In order for the failover to be transparent we have to ensure that the login that is added in the Primary node is also added to the secondary node. Currently, we are adding the logins to the secondary node manually. Is there a way to automate this process so that a Login added to the Primary node is automatically updated on the Secondary Node.
As per our client requirement we want to set synchronization time from primary replica to secondary replica after 20 minutes. Is it possible in MSSQL AlwaysOn Availability Groups in SQL Server 2012?
Currently in my environment we are using SQL server 2012.We setup Alwayson with synchronous commit.Details of existing AlwaysOn: one primary and two secondary.
Primary: On-Premise server. Secondary1: On-Premise server. Secondary2: Azure VM. Requirement: We need to add Secondary3 New Azure VM on same AG with asynchronous mode or synchronous mode. Or We need to create one more AG on same DB and add the new replica with asynchronous.Is it possible above 2 option in this scenario? My cluster environment is Manual failover only not auto failover.
We have a client which they have production 2 node cluster environment. On it around 200 databases with single SQL instance.
Now client wants disatster plan for these 200 database. In these 200 database 3 db's are around 80 GB each databases remaing are less than 5 DB.Note: All these 200 db's are having produciton sites (i mean to say each db is having single site)
For this DR paln clinet is going to provide other DR server,they wants to setup DR between exsting produciton cluster instance to this DR server.
So in this case we have suggest SQL server AlwaysOn availability group.
Here my main question is can we keep all these databases in single AG? .If yes, guidlines to move up. if not, do we have any limitations.Also, best method to setup for this DR plan.
Merge replication on AlwayOn is configured, working fine on Original Publisher.When failover to possible publisher data is not being replicated.
Replication Monitor Error:
Message: Validation failed for the publisher 'RIMDNS' with error 21879 severity 16 message 'Unable to query the redirected server 'RIMDNS' for original publisher 'UNITEDKINGDOM' and publisher database 'TD_AO11' to determine the name of the remote server; Error 2, Error message 'Error 2, Level 16, State 1, Message: Named Pipes Provider: Could not open a connection to SQL Server [2]. '. '.
I've set up a SQL server 2014 cluster with AlwaysOn availability groups. Upon creating the AG i opted for full syncronisation to a specific SMB share.Now i want to change that share because it has to move to a new server. How can i do that? I found no settings in the SSMS for that.
We tried to configure log shipping using script generated by GUI and when executed specific script which is meant for secondary server the database is not created and threw below error.
Msg 15010, Level 16, State 1, Procedure sp_add_log_shipping_secondary_database, Line 50
The database 'BUBALLO' does not exist. Supply a valid database name. To see available databases, use sys.databases.
Note: Only Copy, restore and alerts jobs have been created.
The account I'm trying to configure log shipping is the service account by which SQL and agent services are running and folder in where data and log files are intended and to be created is open to all (everybody has read/write permissioins) believe the issue is not with permissions.
I have a SQL 2014 SP1 set of servers with two asynchronous copies of an availability group. One of the asynchronous sites is down and SQL can no longer replicate the changes. I need to understand how long SQL Server can continue this way before the secondary replica will no longer be able to catch up. I assume this is really tied to the transaction log on the primary replica but would like it clarified.
