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Failed to join the instance to the availability group while configuring AlwaysON
As SQL 2012 is in it’s RC0 phase, I was trying to configure AlwaysON on my 2-node WSFC with node and disk majority.Next I installed Default instance of SQL Server in parallel ( to save some time ) on...
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SQL 2012: Indirect Checkpoint Explained !!!
Recently I got an opportunity to present at the SQL Server day organized by www.SQLServerGeeks.com on SQL 2012 Indirect Checkpoints.In this post I would like to explain the same for the benefit of...
View ArticleSQL 2012 Resources !!!
As we all are excited with the release of SQL 2012, it is important for all of us to quickly rampup and equip ourselves with SQL 2012. In this blog post, I am sharing some of the important SQL 2012...
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Performance Tuning with Columnstore index using Batch Processing
As we all are aware, SQL 2012 introduced columstore indexes which is based Microsoft’s xvelocity in-memory engine and as you might have heard and read in numerous articles it is known to provide 5-50X...
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SQL Server 2012 AlwaysON Automatic Failover Set – Caveat
As I was going through the documentation of AlwaysON, I came across the following caveat with SQL Server AlwaysON Automatic Failover set. While we can have upto synchronous secondary replica, we can...
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Recovering from cryptic errors thrown when importing from PowerPivot
I am borrowing this title from one of the blog post from Cathy Dumas, since this post is just the extension of her blog post which she posted for resolving the error thrown while creating a SSAS...
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Gotcha – Listening SQL Server Availability Group Listener on non-default port
While configuring SQL Server AlwaysON Availability Groups, as a part of security hardening practice it is recommended to configure Availability Group to listen on a non-default port other than 1433....
View ArticleSQL Reporting Services Performance Tuning Tips & Tricks
It has been really long time since I have blogged. However I will try to blog as often as I can. Very Recently, I performed a SSRS Performance Review to tune performance reports for one of our...
View ArticleDisabling Non-Clustered Columnstore Index doesn’t appear to execute in Stored...
Consider the following scenario, you have a large fact table with non-clustered columnstore index. In SQL 2012, Columnstore index is not updatable hence at night when you load or purge the table, the...
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SQL Server Datafile maxsize reported incorrectly
Recently we encountered and filed a benign reporting BUG which reports the maxsize of the data file incorrectly. If you create a database & then alter the initial size of the database to be greater...
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