Monitor Distributor Agent in Transnational Replication
Hi,I wanted to monitor the Distributor Agent's running status in Transnational Replication. I want to get alert when it is stopped.Tried to create alert for the same. But its not working as expected...
View ArticleMSmerge_Index_xxxxx missing on subscriber
I have 2 sites that have been replicating successfully for many years using a Merge Replication. We needed to add several new tables to the replication. I have added the tables in the Articles of the...
View ArticleReplication issue on xml data in varchar(max) data type
I set up transactional replication and have an issues on xml data which is in varchar(max) data type. Recently I found some of the xml format got malformed on subscriber but not on publisher. eg: On...
View ArticleSQL Server 2008R2, replicating from on-prem, to SQL Server 2008R2 VM in Azure
I have been tasked with migrating a database, size being up to 15Gb, from a SQL Server 2008 database in a 3rd party cloud VM, to SQL Azure. On go-live day, when we switch from the old host, the Azure,...
View ArticleSnapshot Agent Times Out At SP_MSACTIVATE_AUTO_SUB
Hello.I have a Transactional Replication with a remote Distributor, on a DB that I was previously publishing, then removed the PUB and SUB (because I switched to a Remote Distributor), and now am...
View Articlequerying a database that has replication subscriber tables
Hi we run 2017 standard. we are wondering if queries run against replication subscriber tables can interfere (ie block) with the replication process. and if the opposite is true as well, ie the...
View Articlewhat if i want replication but dont have a pk
Hi I have an incident history table that doesn't have a primary key. It is provided by a 3rd party so I don't have much of a choice there.it has a clustered index on the incident id (which is unique on...
View ArticleLogical Records in Merge Replication
Good Day All, We're currently running SQL Server 2008 R2 in a merge replication topology. Publisher and distributor are on same machine. I've done some reading on the use of Logical Records to process...
View ArticleDue to Huge volume of data updates on Source System SQL Server Transactional...
Hi,Due to huge volume of data getting updated on Source System i.e. Oracle Database , SQL Server Transactional Replication is very slow. Currently we are receiving 100K data updates every...
View ArticleChange Tracking Performance
We have a large production system and implemented change tracking 8 days ago with a retention policy of 3 days. The syscommittab is currently at 332 million records and climbing. We have SQL 2008 SP1...
View ArticleReplication doesnt copy check and default constraints
Hi,i'm trying to create a transactional replication from DB A to DB B. Definition of A and B are the same, and i want to keep the B database with all the indexes, constraints, keys, ...But after the...
View ArticleTransactional Replication in SQL 2014
Recently we configured Transactional Replicaiton in SQL Server 2014 ENT.Both publisher and subscriber are on SQL Server 2014 ENT.it was working fine. But now getting msg like ,Replicated transactions...
View Articlecan merge replication target a db already targeted by transaction replication
Hi we run 2017 standard. We are absent pk's on some of our tables that we want replicated to the same db where we already tran replicate many tables that do have pk's. can merge replication target a...
View Articledoes merge replication physically add the row guid to the publisher side?
...if yes, isnt this a problem if the publisher side is a 3rd party product that perhaps has select *'s in it? we run 2017 std.
View Articlecan a db that is already the target of trans replication also be the target...
hi we run 2017 std. Due to a lack of pk's on some publisher tables, we may need to roll our own "replication" to a target db via etl.the best scenario would be for us to put those tables on db's whose...
View ArticleLog Shipping Copy Job failed and tried to copy the transaction log which are...
HI All , We have the Log shipping configured between the 2 instances and sometimes we get the issue or alert for copy job failed.after check the error logs for the Job , we found that the Job is trying...
View ArticleDistribution Agent Fails - Row Not Found at Subscriber
Hello.I started getting the following issue on my Transactional Replication with a remote Distributor:Distribution Agent fails with the message The row was not found at the Subscriber when applying the...
View ArticleLogical Records in Merge Replication
Good Day All, We're currently running SQL Server 2008 R2 in a merge replication topology. Publisher and distributor are on same machine. I've done some reading on the use of Logical Records to process...
View ArticleReplication: There is this merge replication which often shows genstatus with...
Replication: There is this merge replication which often shows genstatus with value 4. How to address it and minimize reoccurrence ?
View ArticleSQL 2019 CTP 3.2 sp_adddistributor fail / bug
Unable to use TSQL or Mgmt Studio to configure instance of SQL 2019 CTP 3.2 as distributor. Both return error indicating "The server principal 'distributor_admin' already exists.". To reproduce, just...
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