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HiI'm new a replication so don't smile about it ;-)We've got a replication with Updateables Subscribers running under SQL2012. One DB is replication in 8 targets in the same Instance, local...
View ArticleMicrosoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Transaction log shipping large logs at 2AM
Hi everyone, i have an odd question.We've recently migrated to MS SQL 2008 R2 with SP2 and the latest CU, (as in this week) We use Transaction log shipping to our DR facility for recovery purposesThe...
View ArticleHow to create hourly SQL snapshot
Hi, I need to create hourly snapshot in my SQL data base. how do i create it?Thanks satchi
View ArticleBulk Copy failure where subscriber Article contains additional columns to...
HiI have a transactional publication containing an Article that is column filtered (i.e some columns are not to be replicated). The corresponding Article in the subscriber is IDENTICAL to the Article...
View ArticleRemoving rows in Conflict table
I have a merge replication publication. I want to provide an interface for subscribers to see conflicts after they occur by placing the conflict records in a holding table that will be used to...
View ArticleSQL 2008r2 Replication does not restart after VPN Connection was reset
The replication on my servers work over Zywall USG200 IPSEC VPN. If the VPN resets and reconnect, the SQL replication stops replication, then I have to reboot the server that's replication is not...
View ArticleMerge Agent job failure intermittently
Hi,Intermittently on of the servers, merge agent job is failing intermittently. Job runs every day once and some days it fails with below error.I am planning to enable verbose logging by specifying...
View ArticleCan i set up peer to peer replication between SQL server 2008R2 and SQL...
Hi All,Is it possible to configure peer to peer replication between nodes running in sql server 2008r2 and SQL Server 2012 (basically different versions)?Should i need to follow any different steps if...
View Articlereplication best practice - restore once a month?
We have a main OLTP database and are setting up transaction replication for a reporting database.We have say 1,000 tables.Maybe 500 of them clearly need to be replicated in near-real time.Another 100...
View ArticleSQL 2005 SP3 - Republishing server Error when attempting to Create a 2nd...
Hi all, I have a problem and would appreciate any advice in order to troubleshoot and address it. I have the following setupSQL 2005 SP3 on the Publisher and this is Merge Replication.The Republishing...
View ArticleReplication or Failover Clustering - Need help to choose the correct option
Hello all,We actually have a standalone SQL server 2008 R2 running on a Windows 2008 R2 server.We now have a second server room (in an other building, but connected to the internal network) that we...
View Articleweb merge replication - snapshot
I have setup merge replication a lot when the computers are in the same network (even if they are not in the same physical location, but they are connected via VPN).Well, now i have to setup merge...
View ArticleHow does SQL Server handle synchronization failure?
For a Merge Pull Subscription. In terms of data changes that were supposed to be uploaded or downloaded, what happens if synchronization fails say midway into the process? For example, if there is a...
View ArticleSQL Server 2008R2 Bespoke replication - Initialize a Transactional...
SQL Server 2008R2 Bespoke replication - Initialize a Transactional Subscription without a snapshotHi, We need to migrate our subscriber archive database from Server A to B. However replication should...
View ArticleSQL Replication Sync
Hi,Replication is for down for some time. It is fixed now.. but it has more than 1 million records to sync which is taking for ever. Should we wait for the subscription to sync with the publication or...
View ArticlePeer to Peer Replication conflict
There is any way to specify a rule for replication to automatically resolve conflicts? For instance, publisher always wins?We want publisher to be win conflict all the time and data to be replicate to...
View ArticlePeer to Peer Replication 2008 2012
Hi I am a vb Developer trying to investigate the ability of adding an sql server 2012 node into an existing peer to peer replication of 2 nodes running sql server 2008.I cannot find any support...
View Articleadd a new subscription to an existing publication
We are using SQl 2008 push replication and distributor is on its own physical server. We have an existing publication and one subscriber already established and running in production. Recently we...
View ArticleInitialize from LSN doesn't work
Hi,For some reason we cannot initialize from LSN in a mirrored setup.We have 3 servers and push replicate from A to B, SRVB and C are setup with database mirroring.SRVA – PublisherSRVB – PrincipalSRVC...
View ArticleIssues with Adding a new subscriber to an existing transactional replication...
I am trying to add a new subscriber to an existing transactional replication with pull subscription.Steps followed: At the publisher: 1. Changed the value for allow_initialize_from_backup to true using...
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