Merge replication - conflicts with primary keys
I am running merge replication (pull) between few dozens leptops and once in a while when two people update information in close proximty in time, I will get a primary key violation. It happens because...
View ArticlePublication Database moving to different Storage
Hi, I have publication database and distributor configured on a Data1 Mount Volume and they are growing beyond anticipated, the database has already reached 90% of the storage. Below steps are what i...
View Articlesp_publication_validation failing with full rowcount method
We have a replication setup for a table which is 250 GB in size and it has about 1.7 billion rows. There are three subscribers for this publication. Since about a week, we are getting validation error...
View ArticleReinitializing Replication using t-sql
I am in need of reinitializing the transactional replication of a database after various upgrade scripts are ran against it. I need a new snapshot created and the whole thing to start without my...
View ArticleThe merge process could not initialize the subscription
I have inherited an existing replication setup and I need to add a new publication to replicate. I'm fairly new to replication and this is the first time I've added a new publication. Up until now,...
View ArticleMSRepl_command table growing - cleanup job failing
I've tried to get an answer out of TechNet on this ... they are very quiet. Here is my problem: My distribution database is growing because the distribution cleanup job is failing. I have a separate...
View ArticleRecord created at subscriber, then deleted, then inserted again??
I have a basic invoice -> invoiceitem relationship in my merge replication setup on SQL2K8 R2. [Invoice] article is replicated with overlapping partition options and filter WHERE...
View ArticleUninitialized subscription in Transactional replication
Hello all, I setup replication from the backup of publisher database by following these steps: 1. Set up the Distributer – database and share – one time setup 2. Set up Publisher on source server -...
View ArticleReplication Failed
Hi I am setting up replication between two versions of SQL Server in different domains. Publisher : SQL 2005 Subscriber : SQL 2008 I have configured Distributor and Publication thru GUI and configured...
View Articleno active subscriptions found. error: 21488.
Hi there, Trying to insert tracer token via replication monitor. Works for all subscriptions except 1. For this, I get 'no active subscriptions were found... error: 21488). I've googled but cannot find...
View ArticleAdding article to two subscribers, transactional replication
I am having an issue, I have a publication with 2 subscriber databases. The second subscriber database is a recent addition. Previously I only had one subscriber database and when I added a new...
View ArticleReplication: Version problem (2014-2016)
Hello everyone, I dig for a while to make my replic
View ArticleSQL Server 2014 - Subscription not craeted on subscriber
Hello,I am trying to setup transactional replication between server A and server B. I have SQL Server Agent configured to use 'NT SERVICE\SQLSERVERAGENT' account that has sysadmin privilege. The...
View ArticleQuestion re: replication & initializing from backup
So I had to rebuild a server that was subscriber using pull replication. Currently I'm restoring the database on the subscriber form backup and it's a big one. I know from previous recovery test that...
View ArticleSQL 2005 Peer-To-Peer Replication Issue
I have p2p replication set up between 2 2005 boxes.I need to remove p2p from the databases involved. I cannot use the topology wizard, because it does not work.How do I achieve this?
View ArticleMove distribution database to another drive
We enabled Replication over the weekend for one of our main prod servers. All went fine, except that the distribution database was created on the wrong drive...... Is there any way to move it without...
View ArticleLog shipping
hii have log shipping enabled on 1 sql instance, been working mostly fine, but all of a sudden backup logs stop applying to the secondary database,possibly after a full db backup has occurred as it...
View ArticleReplication between 2 sql 2k2014 that has the same IP
Hello,I need to replicate a database from one location to another. Basically i should have a full copy of the whole environment which means application and the database. For the applicatiin is not a...
View ArticleRemove article from existing publication, does it require a new snapshot?
The publisher is on one instance running SQL 2005 SP3 (9.00.4053.00). The distributor and subscriber are on a second instance running SQL 2005 SP2 (9.00.3080.00). We're talking about Transactional...
View ArticleRemove Replication for a Published Database
We periodically refresh development and test environments that have transactional replication set up. In the past, various methods have been used to remove replication before restoring backups of...
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