Init a Transaction Subcription from Backup - What if the data was filtered...
Fellow SQLers,On SQL 2016 StandardI am planning to rebuild a replication. The primary db is 1.3 tb. So, the snapshot process will be a monster. The subscripber will not be exact as publisher - not all...
View ArticleSQL Server 2019: Logreader broken
The transactional log reader seems to be broken in sql server 2019 RTM.I upgraded my test environment and run in the problem that the second step in the sql server agent job (run agent) is only doing...
View ArticleSQL application aware replication
HelloI have an on-prem SQL server 2016 which uses to my web application. This SQL server also has other databases/tables as well. So I want to replicate only the changes in my database with table wise....
View ArticleIdentifying if a Stored Procedure that has FOR Replication is being used
Fellow SQLers,I am getting ready to move a pub and sub replication to other servers.I happened to find a sp on the pub db that has FOR REPLICATION in the header.But when I dump the pub script, I can...
View ArticleTransactional Replication - Disaster Recovery Steps
Hi,We have SQL2016 server with multiple databases and we have some of the databases using the Transactional replication and the subscriber and distributor is in same data center. We using zerto to...
View Articlequestions about custom indexes on replication target tables
Hi we run 2017 std. Is it true that custom indexes can be built on the target tables of replication?Articles like this suggest yes...
View ArticleReplication- table replication with filter
hi,we have transactional replication from serverA to ServerB , accounttable to accounttable. (publication contains 130 articles).as of now all columns in accounttable replicated to supscription.new...
View Articlewhat is the difference between replication options proc exec and definition...
I understand proc exec option as for example when you run a procedure which inserts 1000 records into table, those inserts afterwards (after they were inserted in Publisher) will be replicated to the...
View ArticleIs subscription database considered as read-only?
I am not sure about that because while users implement SELECT from subscription database, publisher replicates data to the subscription server meaning that INSERT and UPDATE also take place(which are...
View ArticleHow does DBCC CHECKDB use tempdb?
I would like to know the working principle of DBCC regarding the tempdb. I want to know why it uses tempdb for what purpose. I didn't find any advanced article about that so maybe someone can shortly...
View ArticleNetbackup interfering with SQL server log shipping/replication
HiWe currently have Netbackup configured on our Production database and we can thereby shrink the logfile size so it does not keep growing. We are now enabling log shipping on our primary db so that we...
View ArticleAn existing connection was forcibly closed by remote host
Hi All,<o:p></o:p>There is connection issue while trying to connect remote SQL server SQL 2016 hosted on Windows 2016 from <o:p></o:p>SSMS 2012 hosted on windows server 2012...
View ArticleCannot drop server because it is used as a Subscriber to remote Publisher in...
Trying to remove replication from a test environment and have the pubs/subs all removed but when i try to remove the distributor by running sp_dropdistpublisher, I get the error above. I have tried...
View ArticleBest Way to Upgrade SQL Server Replication Servers
I have a 3 server transactional replication configuration:Server A (SQL 2008R2 and WinSvr 2008R2) is a publisher of database DB1. It is a business critical OLTP VM which is used 24/7.Server B (SQL...
View ArticleReplication - servers host name change.
we have 1 publication server & subscription server. ( all are in same Vnet)we are going to change this Publication server & subscription server (hostname). is this affect replication.how can i...
View ArticleReplica for reporting in another location
Hello,I have a problem with users who refreshing SQL query in Excel few times per day. Some queries are heavy and it clog our SQL server. We have central datacenter, few branch offices and headquarter....
View Articlehow to Add new columns to existing article in transactional replication...
transnational replication already available for tableA with minimum column .now i need to add one more column to existing article tableA . shall i directly enable this column on publication? is this...
View ArticleCannot generate a snapshot after removing articles
We've had a working publication in place for some years now. I started to receive this error after I unchecked 3 articles from the Publication Properties dialog. These 3 tables hold lookup data and...
View Articledata is not replicating from publisher to subscriber.
I configured transactional replication. However, data is not replicating from publisher to subscriber. I have attached screenshots of errors. Could you please adviseKiran
View ArticleMax text replication Size
Fellow SQLers.We just started setting up replication.Realized that Max text replication Size was set to default of 65536.We have since changed it to -1 because we do have lob fileds (ntext, max,...
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