Hello to all,
I am currently working on creating a Windows 2003 server cluster (3 nodes)
with the intent that it serve our web app which requires multiple SQL
databases. The question I have is this: How can I configure load balancing

My application record the SQL Timeout in the log file. The application
server calls SQL on cluster via ADO. The error is always when the batch
processing is running. Can anyone here advise me on how do I expand the
time-out on SQL cluster? I am using SQL 2000 SP3

Hi, In the company where I Work, decide to implement a sql server cluster. I
want to ask, I somebody know any issue I have to consider or any sites that i
need to visit before implement it.
At this moment, i have a server running win2k server sp4, sql server 2000

I have set up a
multiple instance
SQL server and I'm
trying to

We have a SQL 2000 SP 3a Active/Active Cluster running on Win2K3 SP1 servers.
Servers are big iron - plenty of memory, processors, GB Network, etc.
Every once in a while (usually 3 or 4 times a day), I will see a rash of
Source: ClusSvc

We will be setting up a Windows 2000 SQL server on a two node 2003 Cluster
connected to an HP SAN.
Reading through the whitepapers and watching the webcast on how to setup
everything says to keep the data files on a seperate disk from the quorum

We are implementing clustering (Active/Passive) in our Production environment.
So we will have two windows server 2003 for SQL SERVER. (ProdDbServer1 and
ProdDbServer2)
I will install SQL Server on both the machine and i will create my database

We have a Win2003 Enterprise/SQL 2000 "active/passive" cluster, and we want
to split a few larger DB's off to a seperate and new "active/passive"
cluster.  The reason for the split is to allow this new cluster to control
the one application and the other cluster to control the ...

Strange issue... I have a 2-node SQL Server 2000 Cluster with SP4
applied. Everything works fine but the Veritas BackupExec program can't
find the SQL Server. When I use Computer Management to connect to the
cluster by the cluster name (and also to the active node of the

Hello All. I need to set up quite a large SQL System 2005 system that needs
to deal with 40,000 concurrent users, and one of the tables will contain blob
data. 40,000 users throwing around Mb's of data at the same time worries me a
little bit!

Books online says clearly that on the SQLServer agent properties
(Connection tab) you should select Windows authentication if you are
running on NT or Windows 2000.  It doesnt't say why.  My version of Books
doesn't give a recommendation for Windows 2003.

  When I finish to create one non clustering index on of of my table , I
found out that the size of the hard disk increase amazingly.
  I decide to drop the this index but the hard disk size did not back to
original size before that. What should I do next ? Please help

In: Clustered SQL Server do's, don'ts, and basic warnings
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;254321
In Section: Important cluster service administrative rules.
"Warning If you ignore any of the following rules, you will need to

Our production enviornment consists of 2 production servers in an
active\passive set up.  The production enviornment has 3 instances.  Is it
possible that a single instance can fail over to the standby node and leaving
the other 2 behind?  We think this is happeing but I thought ...

I am just trying to valid that our process is correct for moving all
clustered groups off of a node for maintenance (e.g. rebooting a node).
We have three different clustered configurations in our environment.
Here is each move process for each configuration.