A few days a fail over occurred due to a network outage. After this the
event log filled with Error 823 messages. After reading books on line I
got worried since it talks about disk problems. I kind of figured out
what is going on but have not found a solution yet.

Hello all...
What is the proper procedure to applying the SQL 2000 SP4 AWE Hotfix on a
cluster?
Also, has anyone had any issues with this hotfix on a cluster?

We are running Windows 2003 Cluster with SQL Enterprise 2000. We have
10  Cluster Groups setup on the server, each having two drives and a
sql instance. In cluster admin, I can see the two physical drives in
each group, but from SQL enterpise manager, on a given sql instance, I

We have a standalone SQL server and want to setup clustered SQL server.  Is
it necessary to re-install the SQL server or just run the SQL server setup
with 'create a SQL server failover cluster'? Do we need to re-attach/restore
the DB after the clustered SQL server setup?  Thanks ...

I am settingup 2 servers with Network load balancing and wanted to know how
can I make the SQL databases to Synchronize between my 2 servers is it even
possible and if yes how?
Thanks

Can anyone help?
SQL 2005 has been installed on Server A, when trying to add a second node,  
using these instructions
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms191545.aspx no error messages are

To solve corruption issues i will be rebuilding my database sql 2000
enterprise edition sp3a on windows 2000 advanced sevrer clusterusing DBCC
CHECKDB (<database name>, REPAIR_REBUILD) .
database size is 7 gb does it require any additional space in harddisk?

In a sql cluster environment I inherited:
Enterprise Edition on Windows NT 5.2 (Build 3790: Service Pack 1)
Microsoft SQL Server  2000 - 8.00.760 (Intel X86)
I forced a failover to find out that full-text search isn't working.

We have a SQL Server 2005 Standard environment with 4 instances of SQL 2005
running on it.  Everyone connects to these instances with the machine
name\instance i.e. server1\instancea, server1\instanceb etc.
We are now attempting to cluster this machine in order to do ...

We have Windows Services serving Client Applications.  The data is stored in
MS-SQL Server 2000.
For high availability of our Windows Services to client apps, We are looking
for a Shared-nothing cluster (node 1/node 2)configuration.  From Microsoft

I currently have a Win2000 cluster (2-nodes) with virtual
servers\instances SQL1\SQL1 and SQL2\SQL2.  What I want to do is move
both to a Win2003 cluster (2-nodes).  The catch here is that the
Win2000 cluster is running on a SAN that does not support Win2003

I am having difficulties getting this install to take.  I have a fully
functional Win2k3 SP1 Enterprise Ed.  2 Node Cluster w/the cluster group, the
msdtc group, and the sql group already built.  The SQL group only contains
the SAN disk resource at this time.  This cluster is ...

re: SQL Server 2005 Standard on Windows 2003
My question:
The SQL Server service failed on our primary node last night. However,
the node did *not* failover to the secondary node.

We have recently done an SQL Server 2005 Cluster install. On the secondary
node we also installed the client tools as well as integration services
using these intructions:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms345193.aspx

I have a question about settings on a clustered instance of SQL Server
2005 Standard on Windows 2003 Enterprise.
In "Cluster Administrator", it is clear that our groups are not set up
for best practices. Currently, we have the following "Groups" defined: