Did you know that installing certain Windows features could impact the way that SQL gets installed on your server? Me either. When performing some installs recently I came across a problem whereby I was not able to change the shared tools location. The option was greyed out. This didn’t make any sense to me. The…
Tag: Modernization/Configuration
SQL Clustering–Network Binding Order Warnings
In setting up my Windows 2008 R2/SQL 2008 R2 cluster this week I came across a warning in the Setup Support Rules stating that “The domain network is not the first bound network.” This didn’t make any sense to me as I had been very careful in setting the binding order in the network…
Moving SQL Datafiles
The Problem A Sharepoint database (LOCAL_CONTENT_DB) running on a clustered SQL 2005 EE Instance (on Windows 2003 EE) had experienced growth from 10GB to 95GB in a few weeks and there was no more disk for it to grow any further. I needed to add some disk to the cluster, get it in the cluster…