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Zero-Cost Highly Available Reporting Services within a Failover Cluster

SQLGrinder July 7, 2015 Failover Cluster, SQL 2008, SQL 2012, SSRS 6 Comments

This solution is for anyone that has a SQL failover cluster and wishes Reporting Service to be highly available and have failover capabilities. The solution I implemented seems the most natural and how Reporting Services should work right out of the box – but

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Accessing Multiple Cluster Instances without Instance Names

SQLGrinder July 1, 2015 Failover Cluster, SQL 2008, SQL 2012 No Comments

Since I was installing a dual instance cluster, I had setup two virtual SQL database names with different IP address and the second instance required a non-default instance name. However, I wanted to access both instances using the virtual name

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SQL Setup Checklist – Because SQL Defaults Suck!

SQLGrinder June 24, 2015 SQL 2008, SQL 2012 No Comments

When installing SQL, it is too easy to click next and accept all the default settings. Kevin Boles has preached for years that SQL Server defaults suck! Joseph D’Antoni has also addressed bad default settings in Building Perfect SQL Servers

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