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Hello again ! This is yet another post on SQL Server failover clustering. Hope you don't mind :). I was working the other day on the case and customer had a SQL Server 2005 cluster. As I was looking at output of sp_configure I noticed that it had 'priority...

I was recently asked by a customer who just installed SQL Server 2005 with SP2 on 3 node failover cluster if he can rename SQL Server resource group after SQL Server is installed. The answer is Yes it is possible and does not affect functionality of SQL...

Good day, everyone! With this post I will start a series of posts describing tools which everyone of you can use to troubleshoot SQL Server problems. They are freely available and either come standard with SQL Server distribution or freely downlodable...

Hello my fellow readers! I want to bring to your attention one small thing which will likely save you time and relieve from lots of headaches when installing SQL Server on the cluster. I am talking about special characters like & < > " etc in...

Micrsoft SQL Server 2005 SP3 is now available for download here . Fixes and changes made in SP3 are documented in KB article 955706 .

Hi guys! Hope you had great holidays! Since Christmas and New Year are past us, let me resume blogging on SQL Server. I am guessing I won't be making big news if I tell you that SQL Server database is just a collection of 8K pages. Each page serves different...