Web Synchronization got struck with "Downloaded snapshot file xxxxx_367.bcp"
Greetings,I configured a SQL Server Web Synchronization between two domains (without VPN, IIS 7.5, SQL Server 2008 R2, Merge replication with pull). The configuration was successful and i set output...
View ArticleSQL Server Replication over internet is recommended for large database ?
GreetingsI would like to know whether SQL Server Web Replication is recommended for database having more than 700 tables. If not what are the main disadvantages ?In this case, replication over VPN is...
View ArticleGet alerted on the message "The initial snapshot for publication xxx is not...
hi Is it possible for the distribution agent to write this message to event log ?Because we would like to get alerted on the above message, whenever a new table is added to the publication a snapshot...
View ArticleCreate a SQL server with same instance name as an SQL Cluster
I have a SQL Server 2008 cluster and I an setting up a separate SQL server is a disaster recovery site. I would like to know if I can create the same instance name on the SQL server in the disaster...
View ArticleError in Event Log need Help! "An unhandled exception...
The server is windows 2012 + SQL 2012 sp1 (11.0.3000 web edition) using AWS EC2 instance. The sqlLogShip versin is 11.0.2100.60.We have just setup two sql server doing log shipping every 5 mins.I got...
View ArticleHelp!!! Merge replication error
Dear all,After I recreate the subcriber to a merge replication. It shows the below error. How can I fix it. Thanks.The process could not deliver the snapshot to the Subscriber. (Source: Merge...
View ArticleHow to modify the filter without reinitialze
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View ArticleSQL server 2008 R2 cannot connect to Distributor during WebSync
I set up a server with SQL 2k8 R2 and want to sync a publication with a remote subscriber. Everything is basically set up and I am using RMO. Subscriptions are being created on both server and client...
View ArticleChange Subscription Type from Client To Server
Is there any tweaks to change the subscription type from Client to Server without dropping the subscription.?Please remember to mark the replies as answers if they help. - Kerobin
View ArticleTransactional Replication with Queued updating..
Hello friends,I have setup the transitional replication Push with Immediate update mode , and now it failed because subscriber rebooted and now data was out of sync . Snapshot was not available so to...
View ArticleSlow insert into a temp table during an sp_MSsetupbelongs call
Recently in a merge replication scenario with SQL 2008 RTM and SQL Compact cleints we experienced a massive slowdown in server operations during sync. Digging into the process we found that the...
View ArticleMonitoring transactional (Pull) replication for failures.
Hi,I have setup transactional replication (one way) in Pull model. I need to know if distribution agent fails therefore I tried to configure an alert from Replication Monitor (Replication: agent...
View Article"Could not execute sp_replcmds" after rebuilding indexes
After the weekly index rebuild I get the error "Could not execute sp_replcmds". The way I fix this is to stop the log reader and execute sp_replrestart on the database in question. There are several...
View Articledistribution.dbo.MSdistribution_history comment explanation
The comment column of distributor.dbo.MSdistribution_history contains comments such as<stats state="2"fetch="11554" wait="214007" cmds="17898546" callstogetreplcmds="106880"><sincelaststats...
View Articlereplication internals
Hi, I am trying to understand internals of replication. I am implementing a push transactional replication I understand, Log reader agent Monitors transaction log of all published databases that are...
View Article"Natural" Diapsplay Order After Log Shipping
I have a database that is subject to log shipping. I ran a query that dropped restraints, reassigned IDs then added the restraints back in. The log shipped copy of the datbase was automatically updated...
View ArticleI need 32 bit copy of SQL server 2008
I have a prospective customer for replicated data and I need to set up a distributor on their 'server' which is 32 bit XP SP3I did not realise it was 32 bit till today and had been hoping to use a...
View Articlehow to execute code automatically after replication
Hi,I have a table that is receiving rows continuosly throughout the day (transactional replication) and I need to update certain columns (the logic is tio complex to use calculated fields). Is there a...
View ArticleWill Table partitioning make re-initialization process fast
Size of publisher database is 1 TB so when we go for re-initialization of Transaction replication it takes a huge time to complete this activity. So is there any way to make re-initialization of...
View ArticleDeleting rows with disabling replication triggers
We have a pubication with only 8 tables but two of them with 4-5 million rows. Via partitioning the row first belongs to a specific client than after a given time the row becomes archive so it is taken...
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