Distributor database has application objects
I am working on a replication issue where the distribution database has been set to point to the Publisher database. I am attempting to remove all replication and start again.I have run...
View ArticleSQL Server takes 6 minutes to read data from a table that has.... 0 rows!
Hi,Everything is in the title, if I run a select count(1) from table, I get a result of 0 rows. If I do a select * from table it takes forever to read and finish the query. Also disk is reading the DB...
View ArticleReplicating - .BAK vs .MDF/.LDF
Hi, I am tasked to replicate an SQL Server database to a different machine. From SQL Server 2005 (Win Server 2003) to SQL Server 2012 (Win Server 2012). From the server I saw there is a *.bak file...
View ArticleDifference between running a snapshot agent and full reinitialize of...
Could anyone help explain the below as it's been on my mind for some time.When we add a new article to a publication what is the difference in running the snapshot agent in replication monitor to kick...
View ArticleHow to get Configuration info in replication
Hi I want to get all of information about replication for example is push or pull , is transactional or merg ... , and others.thanks
View ArticleWhat is the logic regarding the number of BCP Threads
I have a publication of 4 tables, two of which are huge.I can't seem to get the Snapshot agent to break up its work I have tried Native and database snapshot Sync Methods and manually added a...
View ArticleSQL 2016 Replication Deprecated
I'm reading that Replication has been deprecated and will be removed in future versions. We are setting up a new Data Warehouse on 2016 and were planning to use replication, however we don't want to go...
View ArticleMerge agent taking more time, even there are no upload and download changes?
We have merge replication config between two servers, we scheduled merge agent to run for every 1 minute. merge agent taking 20 mins to merge the changes and even there are no changes its taking 18...
View ArticleTransactional Replication
Hello All,We had a weekend maintenance for Transactional replication where we tried to move 800Gb of data from sql 2012 to sql 2008, Where i broke down the publications in to three sets, One of the...
View ArticleClustering across a geographical location
Hello, I'm fairly new to MSSQL, but I was wondering... I want 2 nodes One in location A, one in Location B (about 9 miles apart over a 20Mb pipe). Can I set up a cluster between them? Do they have to...
View ArticleLog Shipping
I have configured log shipping as replication ,after few days it got error out on primary backup of transaction log was not happening then I took full backup after transactional log backup was...
View ArticleReplication problems MSSQL_REPL-2147199363
Hello everyoneWe have setup merge replication: Distributor/Publisher are on the same Server with Sql Server 2012 RTM (11.0.2100). Subscribers are on notebook with Sql Server 2012 Express SP2...
View ArticleReplication Malfunctioned - Distribution Missing
Hi All,I have configured the Replication in SQL Server 2008 R2 among 3 instances. Let's say INSTANCE1 as Publisher, INSTANCE2 as Distributor and INSTANCE3 as Subscriber. All the three instances are in...
View Articlemy subscriptions cannot sync
hi I recently created replication and some of subscriptions are in error state and when i want to sync :TITLE: View Synchronization Status ------------------------------The agent could not be...
View ArticleReplication agents and primary keys
Dear experts,Let's assume I have 3 different SQL Server instances set up to participate in transactional replication, Instance A will be a subscriber to instance B and C (B and C are the publishers)....
View ArticleTransactional Disaster Recovery for VLDBs
Dear Expert,I am looking for an effective approach for disaster recovery transactional replication for the given scenario belowWe have 3 separate geographical sites (site 1(Publisher), site...
View ArticleBidirectional Transactional Replication random loopback detection issues
Hi,we have 2 sql server 2012 (one sp1 and another sp2) in bidirectional replication with loopback detection enabled. We have used server names (configured in Alias) for the subscriptions. Every...
View ArticleQuery to change the replication Article properties
Hi,I need a sample SQL query or script to change the article properties in SQL server transnational replication tables.I have attached the sample page for reference where the changes need to be...
View ArticleThe process could not execute 'sp_MSadd_replcmds' on 'dbname'
I ran a huge delete statement and replication went into critical mode... When I tried to restart the logreader I got the following message The process could not execute 'sp_MSadd_replcmds' on 'dbname'...
View Articleconfiguring the central subscriptions from 7 publications ?
Hi Team,We got request to configure central subscription from 7 publishers with same columns. We tried different ways with out using the sanpshot and initialize from backup. Nothing helped.Please guide...
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