Category: SSC

Fix: When an Availability Group listener’s IP is stolen

When you can connect to the individual nodes of a SQL Server Availability Group (AG), but not the AG listener, you may have a duplicate IP situation. Resolving this isn’t QUITE as straightforward as I’d hope, so here’s our solution.

Minion Backup: Restore to another server

Minion Backup makes your SQL Server backups effortless, of course.  And even better, it makes your restores effortless! Oh, yes….yes indeed. Today we’ll look at configuring a common, repeatable scenario: take the latest backup of MyDB from ProdServer1 and restore it to DevServer1. There are four basic steps to the setup and execution: Configure Minion Backup and let it […]