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PowerPivot doesn't install in SharePoint mode on an Active/Passive Cluster

We a provisioning a new SQL Failover Cluster. We have successfully configured the SQL instance, and have moved on to configuration of the PowerPivot for SharePoint instance. We run the configuration ...
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SQL Server sync databases between enterprise - web edition

We have an enterprise version of sql server 2012. we need to synchronize its data to a web edition database. what would be the best option t do this ? further to add on to this we need to provide ...
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AlwaysOn Availability Groups: Confusion with some concepts

In Sql Server 2012, I am trying to install Failover Clustering to configure AlwaysOn Availability Groups. When I run Cluster Validation test wizard, it comes back with a lot of errors. One of them ...
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dropping and adding subscription only picking up new article on some subscribers

I have used the following script to drop aand re-add a table from a subscription so I could move replace the ntext fields with nvarchar(max) columns. the script worked fine, but when I ran the ...
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Recovery time effects of AlwaysOn

We did different kinds of basic Tests and AlwaysOn passed in many tests. We finally did a heavy write test for AlwaysOn and it gave surprising results. The actual Test details are here, the goal is ...
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SQL Server connection with multiSubnetFailover fails, claims mirroring is enabled

I have two SQL Server instances in an availability group. They are not mirrored. I'm trying to connect to the AG using the MS JDBC drivers (4.0) with a connection string including ...
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SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn cannot connect using the Listener IP

I have setup a Windows network in an Amazon in a VPC. I have setup two SQL servers and configured Always On. Everything works OK, except that I cannot connect to the SQL Server using the AAG Listener ...
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Transaction Log Truncation with Copy Only

I have a database backup job set to use full backup with the Copy only option on once daily. The copy only is on because from what I have read that is the only way to backup a database that is ...
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Do schema changes “break” SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn or are they handled transparently?

My organization is planning to adopt SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn and I am trying to understand what impact (if any) it will have on our application upgrade process. We release application updates on an ...
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AG and SQL Backups

I am using always on in sql 2012 and have an AG setup. I would like to know if i were to backup the primary database and restore it would that be allowed without taking the cluster down etc. ...
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AlwaysOn SQL Server setup questions

I just have a few questions regarding the setup of Always On HA, and Clusters. When you setup an AG, and it gets to setting up your IP address for the cluster how can i switch from using DHCP to a ...
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SQL Server 2012 - Always On

I am in the process of setting up always on high availability clusters for the first time. Can anyone explain to me from the networking perspective after configuring the group and testing to make sure ...
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Mirroring and Availability Groups in SQL2012

I've been looking at the new features of SQL 2012, and how it can help my current situation. Currently we're on SQL 2008R2, and replicate two OLTP servers' databases to a single reporting server via ...