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vuacorona
Starting Member
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 Posted - 2007-03-09 : 14:22:50
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| Hi all: I was wondering what will happend to the transaction when the cluster failover from one node to another? In my case the database is in node-001 and I need to restart the server on node-001. So I need to have the database failover to node-002, so I can work on node-001. During this process, will it effect to end-user?Thanksvua |
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tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess
38200 Posts |
Posted - 2007-03-09 : 14:26:20
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| Yes it will affect the user. The SQL Server instance will be shutdown, then started. So the databases will be unavailable until the failover is complete. This means that any transactions that haven't been committed will be rolled back at startup.Tara Kizer |
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pareshmotiwala
Constraint Violating Yak Guru
323 Posts |
Posted - 2007-03-09 : 15:01:43
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| usually in your cluster administrator, there is a provision to change the time for failover. the default if I remember correctly is 180 Seconds. You can play with it to reduce it. but as Tara suggested, your queries WILL FAIL. |
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vuacorona
Starting Member
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Posted - 2007-03-09 : 15:21:03
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| Thank you for all of your quick replies.One more question. This concept will apply to failback as well right? So if I want to have to node failback to original node, all the transactions will rollback ?Thanksvua |
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tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess
38200 Posts |
Posted - 2007-03-09 : 15:26:28
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| Only those transactions that have not been committed will rollback. Each time a failover occurs, SQL Server services are shutdown, cluster group dependencies are moved over, then the SQL Server services are started up.Anytime you start the SQL Server service, regardless if it's on a cluster or a standalone server, all not completed transactions are rolled back.Tara Kizer |
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vuacorona
Starting Member
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Posted - 2007-03-09 : 15:43:32
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| Thank you very much Tara, and thank you all.Have a wondefull weekend.vua |
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