Building reporting db
Hi all, I have to 'copy' the production db to different db/instance on the same sql 2008 r2 server to allow users generating reports on that copied db. How to do this the best way without having to pay...
View ArticleCannot create a subscription
I am trying to set up replication for a Dynamics GP 2010 database as part of disaster recovery procedures. I am also new to SQL Server. I have a test setup with SQL Server 2012 with 2 instances on a...
View ArticleSnapshot Agent Hanging in SSMS but working in Command Line
Hi All,I am running SQL Server 2008 R2 in a merge replication topology. Publisher and distributor are on a single machine. Server is WS2008 R2. Connecting to server via SSMS on another machine....
View ArticleStandard Procedure to Reboot the Server under replication?
Hello Techies ...What is the safest way to reboot the SQL Server under Transactional Replication , this is one way and not update able subscription.Regards JakDBA Please Mark this as Answered if this...
View ArticleRepilication_Issue
Hi ,I have primary key column which has clustered index created in it and now i want to change it to non clustered index this table is part of transitional replication how can i change it with out...
View ArticleWeb 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 ArticleReplication with AlwaysOn
Hi SQL Gurus,Currently, I have AlwaysOn up and running in my production (live) with three node cluster PCI network(server1,2,3) with non-shared storage. Server1 and 2 are in primary DC with synchronous...
View Articledrop article does not clear records from MSreplication_objects
I have simple transactional replication set up. One of the publications had 3 articles. 1 of those became unnecessary, so I did:EXEC sp_dropsubscription @publication = 'Pub_A', @article = 'Art3',...
View ArticleReplication and Rowversion Timestamps
I am trying to setup a Transactional Replication between two SQL 2008 R2 Enterprise servers. The database has many tables that have a rowversion timestamp column and I'm getting errors when it hits one...
View ArticleAdding a subscription fails
I recently had to completely drop replication and rebuild everything. I ran the sp_removedbreplication stored procedure at the publisher and at every subscriber server to clean everything up. I...
View ArticleMSMerge_History issue
So we recently had to drop replication and recreate everything. When we tried recreating our publication we noticed there was a delete command being executed on MSMerge_History and it was taking...
View ArticleHow to alter a primary key on a Replicated Table in SQL Server 2008
We have a table in Sql Server 2008 R2, which has been (Transactional Replication) replicated to two subscriber. We need to increase the size of primary key column from char(14) to char(28).This...
View ArticleReplication from Oracle getting slow
I have a replication to copy data from Oracle to SQL Server. The transactional replication would take longer and longer to complete each hour. Each time we restart the logreader, the system will work...
View ArticleReplication from Oracle getting slow
I have a replication to copy data from Oracle to SQL Server. The transactional replication would take longer and longer to complete each hour. Each time we restart the logreader, the system will work...
View ArticleReplication from Oracle getting slow
I have a replication to copy data from Oracle to SQL Server. The transactional replication would take longer and longer to complete each hour. Each time we restart the logreader, the system will work...
View ArticleSQL Replication
Hello I have two window dedicated server with MS SQL 2008 R2.Both SQL Server have same databases and I want that If ServerA database data change than it also update the ServerB database, If ServerB...
View ArticleOracle snapshot agent fails with ORA-03114: not connected to ORACLE
This is an oracle instance that I have been replicating to for over 5 years now. The machine was moved to another location and there is a VPN tunnel that this data is being sent over. There are 2...
View ArticleReplication Monitoring
I would like to know if we can check the records in publisher and subscriber for any article .Currently in our environment, checking the row count for articles in publisher and subscriber and sending...
View Articlerestore distribution database
I haven't done this before and don't have a test environment to do it. SQL server is moved from existing server to new hardware. Existing server will be turned off once the database is moved to new...
View Article'The Log Reader Agent is scanning the transaction log for commands to be...
Hello All,I am using transactional replication on SQL 2008.There are serveral publications created for more than 100 tables to replicate. I get this message on one of the log reader agent and I don't...
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