Ok, replication concepts and technology has been continuing since the olden days (version 70) within SQL Server journey. To talk about new features within SQLServer 2008 comapring to the previous versions, FILESTREAM where much of data is created every day such as documents, images and videos that needs...
In case you have many snapshots generated within your Replication setup and having troubles in finding what kind of scheduled job is running during the time of snapshot publication. By default you coudl take help of system catalog MSsnapshot_agents and further query against sys.sysjobs or sys.sysjobsteps...
Whenever the replication is configured, a set of agent profiles is installed on the Distributor, thsi profile will have a set of parameters that are used each time an agent runs. In addition to this the replication provides a default profile for each agent and additional predefined profiles for the Log...
A newbie set of question that how to know the whether the current server is distributor or publisher? Any pre-defined script to know any other publishers that are using as Distributor? Well, there are such pre-defined scripts and stored procedures are availble within the SQL Server documentation such...
One of the client referred about the error during the execution of Upgrade Advisor: Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the operation or the server is not responding. Initial thoughts lead to checking the SQL Server timeout setting which has been left with default value...
Here we are going to highlight the majority of tasks you need to perform whenever user complains or you observe about SQL Server Replication performance is affected, adversly. For any performance tuning issues there will be other factors involved including SQL Server, such as in replication the performance...
Replication plays important role within the data-driven events in an Enterprise, vital to the sales-work force type of management. DBAs will always have a primary focus in providing protection for the data assets stored in SQL Server. Protection that covers the security and data recoverability is also...
When you have problems with SQL Server replication where the transactional replication is common case in setting up, eventually you will have problems when the data is growing up and any sudden changes in the ETL will also have affect on replication process. In this case I would suggest in referring...
Got a question via email asking to configure Transactional Replication between two servers with in SQL Server 2005. By all means I would like to refer this KBA http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321822 for replication between HOW TO: Replicate Between Computers Running SQL Server in Non-Trusted Domains...
Run the following TSQL to get details of troubled subscribers that are not getting upto date data: select agent_id from msdistribution_status group by agent_id having sum(undelivCmdsInDistDB) >1000 order by sum(undelivCmdsInDistDB) desc...( read more )