SQL Server Admin 2014 :: Does Each Node Need To Have Same Instance Name For Listener To Work?
Apr 15, 2015
Say I have 2014 AlwaysOn setup and working:
SQLNode1 ->Instance01
SQLNode2 ->Instance02
When I setup my listener: ListenerA...Do I need to use the instance name in it?
ListenerAInstance01 or ListenerAInstance02 depending on which SQLNode is the "active" availability group?
Am I better off to use the same instance name for both nodes, since my goal is to have all databases on both instances in the same availability group and sync'd? When SQLNode1 migrates over to SQLNode2 I will need to update the instance name in my connection string on the listener from ListenerAInstance01 to Instance02? When I connect with SSMS do I just use: ListenerAInstance01 (or 02)?
In our environment applications are using a DNS name which points to the physical server ip address. Now we are planning to move to 2014. We are planning to have servers in different subnets so we will be having two ip adresses for listener. How we can point the DNS to the listener ips? If failover happens can the DNS point to the exact ip address of the listener where it's primary node?
I am trying to build out an AlwaysOn AG with 2 nodes each in a different subnet (in AWS if that matters), windows 2012r2 / SQL 2014 RTM
I created a AG Listener with 2 ip address, 1 for each subnet (checked that neither ip address are used). But whenever i failover the AG to the secondary, and try and connect via the listener it fails,
I am trying to connect via SSMS from the primary instance. and just time out, If i roll over to the primary i can connect no issues, I've tried playing with the connection settings, upping the time out to 30 secs, adding the MultiSubnetFailover=true. etc but not getting any joy.
We have a bought in application written in Visual Basic 6 using ADO 2.7 to connect to SQL Server. The application has two connections strings and uses internal logic to determine which of the two connection strings connects to a read-write database. It does something as simple as trying an update that makes no changes to a very small table somewhere.
Previously this application connected to a Mirrored Database hosted on two Windows Server Failover Clusters and SQL Server 2005.For the future the App will be connecting this application to a SQL Server 2014 Availability Group.The Availability Group is made up of four servers, in a cluster, two at one site on Subnet A and the other two at a second site on Subnet B. The Availability Group has been given a Listener with a DNS name of AGLISTEST on port 1433 with two Static IP addresses, one for each subnet.
Our Contractor has configured the Application’s connection strings to connect to the two Static IP addresses assigned to the AG. He is of the opinion that although ADO has zero understanding of an Availability Group, at least one of the Static IP Address will translate to the Availability Group primary server because it is a Cluster Resource and so act like a Cluster IP Address on Windows Server Failover Cluster; i.e. sort of mimicking the previous configuration. This does work and he has demonstrated it, however I can’t find any article that proves to my satisfaction this is intended behavior not something that accidentally works. If it is accidental behavior then that would be something that might stop working at an unexpected point in the future.
All the research I have found relates to connecting to the AG Listener name, and all the multi-subnet issues and Active Directory issues that go with connecting using what is a legacy client.So; the question is, is this translation / redirection of static IP Addresses assigned to an Availability Group listener documented and safe?
I have a 2 node cluster with 2 standalone 2k14 instances having alwayson setup. As per client requirement we have created a client access point with a cname alias in dns to connect to secondary replica. Now, everytime whenerver the roles switch over one has to manually move this resource from the previous secondary node to the new secondary node. This is tedious, and should not be done manually either, so I am looking for a way to automate it so that as soon as the role switches over, the resource group after some time should also switch over to the current secondary.
I setup an availability Group. (Only 2 servers - Primary And secondary) -- 21 , 22
I also define an listener . IP .. 23
1- In First step I connected To Listener (23) And in a while I inserted A record to a table .
While 1=1 insert into Tbl_T1(f1,f2) Values (1,2)
2- in second, I Stop the primary .
- I expected this while whitout disconnect, continue.
3- The while code stopped whit this message :
Msg 64, Level 20, State 0, Line 0 A transport-level error has occurred when receiving results from the server. (provider: TCP Provider, error: 0 - The specified network name is no longer available.)
4- I execute again the script, And it worked in new primary.
My questions :
1- is the listener disconnected between switched primary and secondary ? OR have we data loss between switching?
2- I did some huge update on Primary that fill the Log fiel space. And in last Update I got this error :
Msg 9002, Level 17, State 2, Line 27
The transaction log for database 'Your_DB' is full due to 'LOG_BACKUP'.
Is this (Fill All space) a reason to switch primary? Or not ?
I've two instances(Default, Named[dynamicsFINANCE]) running on SQL server 2014. However, when I try to connect to named instance say (dynamicsFINANCE) using SQL authentication from local SSMS, I get below error message:
A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. (provider: SQL Network Interfaces, error: 26 - Error Locating Server/Instance Specified) (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: -1)
I assigned a static port number to the named instance [dynamicsFINANCE] 1450. I also setup the firewall rule to allow access to Port 1450.
if for any reason AG fails over to async node, how replication behaves? As data will not be in sync with previous primary replica, how replication will work? I think that we have to reset replication from scratch as there's a high chance subscribers might be more updated than current primary replica as failover to this node causes data loss. How to keep replication in sync without resetting up? Can we achieve this?
Currently - we have two-node A/P cluster residing on flash array. Need to leverage AlwaysOn to offload processing. Replica server with have Flash storage. Replica node has same CPU and memory footprint. 10GB connection between nodes. Anyone generating such large transaction log for 15/30 minute time period?
I am running SQL 2014 2-node AlwaysON Availability groups, Enterprise Edition in our environment and 5 databases are part of AG.
Question is, sometimes AG is getting failed over to node2 but always our preferred node is node1 due to some business needs otherwise some of our jobs will fail.
So, what I looking for is, a sql script which can handle a situation wherein, for some reason, AG is failed over to node2, it should be able to detect if node1 is back online or not and if so, it should fail back to node1. How to do this using tsql query or stored proc or sql agent job ?
I Run All checks for Validation cluster.I get Error On Disk Lists And Validation failed.With This error : Failed to prepare storage for testing on node "server name" The security account manager (SAM) or local security authority (LSA) server was in the wrong state to perform the security operation.
How to set up a specific aliased instance name. I have installed two identical named instances on a server called LONPOCSQL. The instance names are FINPROD and FINREP, so when connection to them remotely I connect to LONPOCSQLFINPROD or LONPOCSQLFINREP. My question is how can I configure it so that I can connect remotely to the instances in by referencing them as FINPRODFINPROD and FINREPFINREP?
The reason for this is that I need to replace a very old system where the applications connect to the sql servers by referencing them as FINPRODFINPROD and FINREPFINREP respectively. I'm trying to set up a 2-node SQL alwayson AG cluster for HA+DR with one server in the prod DC and the other in DR. I need both instances to live one the same box.
1. As far as I'm aware SQL Aliases only work when the connection is local, remote connections fail 2. I can't create a DNS alias called "FINPRODFINPROD" and point it at a listener name as slashes "" are not allowed in DNS CNAMEs 3. My old boss once built a SQL 2008 R2 failover cluster with two instances on it called "lonsql40lonsql40" but there is no documentation on how he did it and I can't find anything on the web
I have built a SQL 2014 Always on Cluster. I need to create three Availability groups and listeners in the same instance. Do I need 3 separate IP address for each listener or one IP address can be shared for all 3 Listeners ?
I have an existing 2012 default SQL Express. It's set up on a VPS managed by a third party. I have an administrator account on this 2012 Windows server. I'm not much of a sysadmin or a DBA but I get around. ;)
I've installed a new NAMED instance on this VPS and can not connect to it with client tools (SSMS). If I remote in, I can connect this way.
What steps might a seasoned DBA expect to make when getting a new named instance ready for the world.
Assign a port? Check the port?
Open the firewall for the port?
Will this new named instance listen on a different port than the previously installed SQL Express instance?
I try to connect from a pc to a SQL Server on another pc. Both pc’s are in a workgroup. I want to connect from a Windows Forms application to a named instance on the other computer. By now I have been able to connect from one pc to SQL Server on the other with tcp:smurfin, 52782.
I want to be able to use servernameinstancename (instead of portnumber) to make a connection in a Windows Forms application.
I’ve checked / tried te following:
•In the properties of the instance, tab Connections, the option Allow Remote Connections is enabled •In Configuration Manager: TCP is enabled •The service SQL Server Browser is started •On the tab IPAddresses, in the section IPAll, there is NO portnumber for TCP Port. And TCP Dynamic Ports has the nummer 52782 •I have created un inbound rule for port 52782 and also for 1434 (SQL Server Browser). And to be on the save side: a rule for 1433 as well. •Restarted the service
If I run the following code in SQL Server, that same port number (52782) is returned:
EXEC xp_ReadErrorLog 0, 1, N'Server is listening on', N'any', NULL, NULL, 'DESC' GO SELECT local_tcp_port FROM sys.dm_exec_connections WHERE session_id = @@SPID
How you are handling the replication of the many instance-level objects/items (logins, linked servers, server roles, database mail, operators, on and on) to the replicas in an AlwaysOn topology.
I'm especially curious about DBAs managing larger SQL Server environments. In my current environment, we have approximately 80 production SQL instances containing about 650 databases that require high availability and disaster recovery.
We use mirroring today and have a solid, home-grown solution for replicating the instance-level items from production to disaster recovery. AlwaysOn changes things a bit since we'll have multiple replicas and of course the database could be active on any one of those at any time. So my concern is about instance-level items being created in one instance but never deployed to the other instances participating in the AG group.
I changed the Port of my named instance to use static port but still error log is giving two values ,why??
spid15sServer is listening on [ 'any' <ipv6> 50152]. spid15sServer is listening on [ 'any' <ipv4> 50152]. ServerServer is listening on [ ::1 <ipv6> 57518]. ServerServer is listening on [ 127.0.0.1 <ipv4> 57518].
How you would calculate the average read/write latency experienced by a SQL Server instance during a specific time window in order to monitor this for multiple instances. From this MSDN blog, I know that you have to take multiple samples and do some calculations to get the correct latency.
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However, the SQLServer:Resource Pool Stats object tracks these numbers per resource pool and we want to get one number for the whole server. Since there can be a different base value for each resource pool, you can't simply sum the numerator values together. Here's some sample data from a server that illustrates the problem.
object_name counter_name instance_name cntr_value cntr_type SQLServer:Resource Pool Stats Avg Disk Read IO (ms) default 307318919 1073874176 SQLServer:Resource Pool Stats Avg Disk Read IO (ms) Base default 25546724 1073939712 SQLServer:Resource Pool Stats Avg Disk Read IO (ms) internal 2045730 1073874176 SQLServer:Resource Pool Stats Avg Disk Read IO (ms) Base internal 208270 1073939712
I'm thinking I would need to do some sort of weighted average, but I'm not sure if that will result in the correct value. Here's the formula I am thinking about using currently before doing the calculation over time
I've started working at an organization that has a sql 2005 cluster with a named instances on it, lets call it Instance1. What they done is to create a dns alias for servername that is the same as the instance name, so when you connect to the sql server you connect "Instance1Instance1".
We want to move to SQL 2014 cluster with AlwaysOn Availability Groups doing the HA/DR, the question is if I create a listener name called "Listener1" is there a way to using DNS or anything else to point "Instance1Instance1" to "Listener1"
We are rolling out the use of Availability Group listeners to our SQL Server 2012 Environment which has a 2 node multi-subnet cluster. The Primary is R/W and the Secondary is a non-readable node that would be manually failed over to in a DR scenario
I have set up the AGL and asked the sysadmins to create a DNS record in both subnets with fixed IP's.
The issue I have having is that when I ask the app developers to connect to the databases using the AGL it is totally random whether the AGL resolves to the Primary or DR node - as a result that are having problems getting their apps to connect.
I was thinking of asking the sys admins to remove the DNS record in the DR subnet and then add it back in should we need to fail over - but I was thinking there must be a better way.
I want to set up a database role so that users can use sp_readerrorlog through SSMS. It does a check on membership in the securityadmin role.
I have tested it and can see you can grant execute on xp_readerrorlog but the SSMS GUI uses sp_readerrorlog.
I thought I could create a user/certificate and add the signature to sp_readerrorlog but it's not permitted (likely because it's not a normal database object).
So the other solution is to add the users to the securityadmin role but then explicitly deny alter any login (best done with a custom server role in 2012+ but otherwise just manually in 2008). I tested this out and it works, I'm not able to alter any logins or increase my own permissions, I also did a check of what's reported from fn_my_permissions(null, null) and it shows minimal permissions like I'd expect.
If I install an instance with Windows Only authentication, and then change it to Mixed Mode, if I enable the sa login, the password has already been set. What is the default? If it's generated, how secure is it? Is the password generated? What algorithm is used for that?
