Hi,
We have a SQL2008R2 box, replicating via transactional replication out to a second SQL2008R2 box. This has been in place and working well for 18 months, or so. The fields replicated are regularly very large in size.
Suddenly, this week, there was an error indicating that the max text size value was not adequate for the data being replicated - i.e. the value of 65536 wasn't big enough.
The problem is that, since we set up replication, this value was set to 2147483637 to avoid this very issue.
When opening up the Server Properties window, the value is still quite clearly set to 2147483637, even though the synchronisation status shows an error of "length of LOB data (xxxxx) to be replicated exceeds configured maximum 65536".
The only thing I can think of that has changed on that box is the account under which the replication credentials were running. Another user was specified, albeit with the same permissions - could this have kyboshed things?
Before I reset the Max Text Size setting (with the same value indicated), I would like to know if anyone has any idea of what is going on. This is a system on which I can't really afford to spend time "playing".
Thanks,
PaulG
PaulG