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Blastrix
Posting Yak Master

208 Posts

Posted - 2003-02-22 : 19:51:10
We are currently in the process of changing our database server to cope with an increased amount of usage, and to implement another server in case of failure.

The idea right now is to run a cluster with two SQL Servers running Enterprise Edition, against a 100GB disk array. Is there anything I need to look out for or change in my connectivity code, or the way I interact with the database, since the system is clustered?

Thanks

tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess

38200 Posts

Posted - 2003-02-24 : 18:22:52
You should not have to change any code in order to access a database that is on a clustered server. We did not have to.


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MichaelP
Jedi Yak

2489 Posts

Posted - 2003-02-24 : 18:44:09
You may need to look at how your applications are connecting to the database. If I recall with our cluster, the machine has a machinename, and the "cluster" has a name. So, that might change your connection strings unless you are using IP's.

Example:
Machine: SQLServerPC
Cluster: SQLCluster

Our connection string had to look at the Cluster name, so that in the event of failover, the other PC in the cluster would become "SQLCluster" and thus the applications keep running.

Michael

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