Virtualizing a distribution server
We're trying to make a decision on whether to do an in-place virtualization of our distribution server which is running on old-hardware or to take down replication piece by piece and migrate it over to...
View Article'Disabling replication' versus removing it
I'm wondering how to disable replication w/out completely blowing it away. I'd like to do this piece by piece. Is there a system SPROC which can accomplish this? I'd like to the ability to 're-enable',...
View ArticleCreating Replication
Hi All,I am going to remove my previous transaction replication and creating new one details as follow Old Environment _____________________________Transaction Replication-Publisher and distributor on...
View ArticleTransactional replication from a failover cluster instance to a SQL Server...
Hello,I have been poking around on Google trying to understand if there are any gotchas in configuring transactional replication on a instance DB of a failover cluster, to a SQL Server Express DB....
View ArticleMerge Replication Primary Table Key Error
We have a SQL Server 2008 database that is replicated to Australia. The primary data tables are merge replicated. The replication cycle is 1 hour. We have a situation where a user inserted a row...
View ArticleSQL Server 2008 Feature Pack Download
I've gotten nowhere for the past hour trying to download version 10.0.0.0 of certain DLLs that are supposed to belong to the SQL Server feature pack. All I get are results for newer releases. Is...
View ArticleSQL 2012 Database Mirroring Issue is stalling
hi All, I have a SQL 2012 Enterprise Primary and DR SQL Clusters. I have a 500 GB TDE Enabled Using HSM SQL DB which I have mirrored across to DR. I am noticing that my Logs are shipping to DR, but the...
View ArticleA trigger returned a resultset and/or was running with SET NOCOUNT OFF while...
I have 2 servers connected over a low speed wan and we're running SQL Server 2008 with Merge replication. At the subscriber, sometimes when attempting to insert new rows, I get this error:A trigger...
View ArticleThe options to replicate a secondary read-only copy of a big database with...
There is a big database on remote server. A read-only replicate is required on a local server. The data can only be transferred via FTP, etc. It's ok to replicate it once a day. Logshipping is an...
View ArticleSQL Server 2005 - Possible Replication Related Error
hey all,I was setting up a replication job on a server. I was setting up the publisher end. I used the wizard to create a scheduled job to do a snapshot of one of our databases. I completed the...
View ArticleData types in Sql Server 2012 not supported by replication
Hi All,I am planning to configure replication on SQL server 2012.I need to know what data types are not supported in replication and if there are any other boundations. kindly suggest.RegardsRahul
View Articlewhat is the best way to copy database from overseas?
Hello All,As customer need to migrate their databases(200 databases) to our data center, at this moment, we usually ask customer to send full backup by HDD and then send trn files via FTP, then we...
View ArticleMerge statement causing deferred updates
Hi-Environment is SQL2012 Enterprise. We have two tables that are replicated (transactional). The source tables are updated via the MERGE TSQL statement. The columns being updated are not part of any...
View Articleproblem by generating replicated between servers SQL 2008
I have 3 SQL 2008 servers with Windows 2008 R2, 2 of them are in a domain and the other is outside it, one of which is within the domain is as Publisher and the other 2 as subscribers ... which is...
View ArticleSQL Server 2012 Merge Replication - Delete operations on Merge Tables now...
Hi All,In reference to http://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/29141/why-do-replication-deletes-require-sysadmin-accessI have the same issue as reported in the above link. The immediate issue has been...
View ArticleXPREPL.DLL Error
Hi ,I got the below error. How to avoid this without reinstalling the server.Could not load the DLL xprepl.dll, or one of the DLLs it references. Reason: 126(The specified module could not be...
View ArticleMerge rep - monitor upload size
Good day all, Is there any smart way to ascertain the size of data uploaded during a merge replication sync ? It's possible to see the number of rows per table in the history tables , but I can't find...
View ArticleMerge Repl.: Making new snapshot with reinit does not stop buggy schema...
I have configured a running merge replication with several clients on a SQL Server 2012.I now have the problem, that when I make a new snapshot and reinitialize the subscriptions there is always a...
View ArticleReplication between two nodes
Hi.I have two SQL Server 2014 Standard nodes, and I want to keep them completely replicated both sides (node1 to node2 and node2 to node1) to let my firewall manage load balancing or failover when one...
View ArticleBackup Replication Scripts using SSIS
Hi AllI need to find a way of generating replication scripts using SSIS and storing these in a folder, this package will be run from a job on a daily basis, I'm using SQL Server 2008 R2, Any ideas...
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