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replication not working or failing chris
2/20/2004 9:21:47 AM
sql server replication:
sql2k sp3

I know the title sounds bizarre. But its true. I was doing
some disaster recovery testing to find out what would
happen if our Publisher box needed to be restored from
backups. I had all my backups so then I uninstalled/
reinstalled SQL, sp3, and a hotfix. I did all the restores
successfully. First Master, then MSDB, Distribution, and
my user DB. All Publications, Articles, Subscriptions are
intact as expected. The Log Reader and Distribution Agents
are running. The Status is Active for the Subscription.
All appears healthy. Then I insert one row of data. The
Log Reader Agent says it copied 1 row, but the
Distribution Agent never does. It never appears in the
Subscription table either. I ran sp_browsereplcmds and its
empty. Ive dont this type of testing before and never run
into this. My data isnt replicating or blowing up.

Any ideas?
I got it chris
2/23/2004 11:22:11 AM
When I restored the Distribution DB it got switched to
Simple Mode. Ive got the
sp_replicationdboption '<publicationdatabasename>', 'sync
with backup', 'true' was set for the Distribution DB and
the User DB. Since the Distribution DB was in Simple Mode,
the TLog backups werent backing it up and the data never
got sent.


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