Creating a Clustered DTC for SQL Server Redux Posted March 12, 2013 by Allan Hirt in Distributed Transaction Coordinator, DTC, Featured, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2012, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012 Clustered DTC creation – new findings and thoughts Read More » Tweet
How to Properly Configure DTC for Clustered Instances of SQL Server (Revised) Posted March 12, 2013 by Allan Hirt in Distributed Transaction Coordinator, DTC, Featured, PowerShell, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2012, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012 How to configure DTC/MSDTC/MS DTC for FCIs Read More » Tweet
When Is It Time To Stop Using a Deprecated Feature? Posted August 23, 2012 by Allan Hirt in Administration, advice, AlwaysOn, database mirroring, failover clustering, log shipping, PowerShell, SQL Server, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2012, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012 What do you do when you rely on something and then it’s gone? Read More » Tweet
Anti-Virus + Windows Failover Clustering + SQL FCIs = Bad Posted July 11, 2012 by Allan Hirt in anti-virus, antivirus, failover clustering, SQL Server, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2012, Windows, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012 Do you really need anti-virus on your SQL Server clusters? Read More » Tweet
Maintaining Quorum During Windows Patching and Updating Posted June 28, 2012 by Allan Hirt in failover clustering, mission critical, patching, process, quorum, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2012, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012 Ensure you don’t have accidental downtime during patching due to losing quorum Read More » Tweet