what can we expect in transactional replication when a table is truncated etc...
Hi. Can the community give me a preliminary taste of what I'm in for using transactional replication when tables are truncated/reloaded/dropped or existing table formats change? The source system is...
View ArticleBackup transactional log
I am following the link below:http://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/2301/step-by-step-sql-server-log-shipping/ Which folder should I use to backup transactional log is it the trransactional Log Backup...
View ArticleQuestion about how to avoid a primary key violations on the subscriber on...
I have transactional replication with a non updateable subscription.I have a published table defined as: CREATE TABLE [dbo].[tablename]( [tablenameID] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT FOR REPLICATION NOT NULL,...
View ArticlePeer-to-Peer replication distributor to subscriber status "Initializing" forever
Hello,I've configured Peer-to-Peer replication and monitor with Replication Monitor. I noticed that an error status in Distributor to Subscriber and use command line to debug the problem. I see status...
View ArticleIs transactional replication with updatable subscriptions right for a...
Scenario:I have a set of highly transactional OLTP databases on SQL Server 2008/Win2008 VMs. I need to establish a disaster recovery method that will minimize downtime and data loss both during the...
View ArticleSubscription is not re-initializing
Hi guys, I have ServerA(publisher) and ServerB(subscriber) both on SQL 2008R2. I have a Transactional Publication created on ServerA with One article added into it and subscription to ServerB....
View ArticleMerge Replication not working with Mirroring for merge subscriber when...
We tried creating Merge replication with Sync_Type as "None" along with Mirroring for merge subscriber but were getting following error when publisher and subscriber are in different domain (principal...
View ArticleReasons to separate Distributor and Publisher
What are the reasons to separate the Distributor and Publisher in Merge replication and P2P replication.What are the most important differences.What do people usually do, why.What do you suggest.Will...
View ArticleBeginning Performance Monitoring
How could I do beginning performance monitoring of replication.Thanks,
View ArticleIntuition wanted: Differences between P2P replication and Transactional...
Abstractly from a high level, what is the difference between Peer-to-peer replication and Transactional replication with updatable subscriptions.Thanks,
View ArticleRemove replicated command from distribution db
Hello All,I am getting an error ont he update record which is in distribution database and not applied it yet to subscriber.Error:if @@trancount > 0 rollback tran (Transaction sequence number:...
View ArticleIs Peer-to-Peer replication designed only for scaling out reads. Is it bad to...
Statement: P2P is designed to scale out reads, although many people wrongly use them as an update anywhere topology.Is this statement saying if my subscribers will be doing a lot of writes I should use...
View Articlesubscriptiontstreams always chang to single
hi: My relication is transaction replication. I create 32 streams do the job.But awayls change to single stream after hours. I found no any error in log and .err file on both distributor and...
View ArticleRowguid column not restoring for merge replicated db
I am trying to take backup of a merge replicated database and restore it in another server but rowguid column is not restored. Why does rowguid column not restored? How to solve this problem?
View Articlesynchronization using script
To start a snapshot agent i am usingsp_startpublication_snapshot @publication = 'PublicationName'Similarly how i can start synchronization in merge replication?now i am right clicking on subscriber...
View ArticleReplication sync problem
Hello all,We are having problem setting up transactional replication for one database. The sync at the subscriber is failing with the following error:"Column name or number of supplied values does not...
View ArticleReplication mdf and ldf size
I am using merge replication.But i found that mdf and ldf size are different at publisher and subscriber.Both database have same contents as merge replication(with push) is setup.At publishermdf-45...
View ArticleIs it possible to recover data
Hi I was busy doing a merge replication and the job stopef with error no activity has been written in the last 10min. My subscriber database however all the data has been whiped out is it possible to...
View ArticleWhich is better as a update anywhere technology: P2P or Merge Replication
With less than 10 servers, which is better as an update anywhere technology: P2P replication or Merge replication, why.Thanks,
View Article"Incorrect syntax near and" while creating merge replication snapshot
I have ran into this error in my snapshot monitor twice and found nothing on Google, so I thought I would contribute my solution here. The situation was that I right clicked and deleted all...
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