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Query notifications and replication
Posted by sqlboy2000 at 4/13/2007 12:48:01 PM
Anyone using query notifications with replication? We have a replicated db (transactional one way) and I have to turn service broker on for an app that will use query notifications and I was wondering what effect that will have on replication. Thanks in advance. ...more >>


Executing the snapshot second time
Posted by Ravi Lobo at 4/13/2007 8:42:01 AM
My understanding about the snapshot is, 1.Snapshot is like a starting point 2.It creates a schema and data files (most of the time) 3.It needs to be re-executed by the end of publication retention period I have the following clarification, I have, Pubsliher SQL2K5 Subscribers anonymous + ...more >>

Sync mirroring - uncommited trans @ primary and dbase efficiency.
Posted by Methodology at 4/13/2007 7:32:05 AM
Hi So imagine the scenario - async SQL 2005 mirroring and the mirror server goes offline. accordingly the transaction log of uncommitted stuff grows on the primary. To what extent does this effect the efficency of running queries against the primary? Any query will need to check data...more >>

Logreader access violation
Posted by sqlnewbie at 4/12/2007 10:56:01 PM
Hi everyone, I am setting up Transaction Replication on a MSSQL 2000 8.0.194. Everything was going fine until the log reader stopped with a "An access violation occurred" error. I tried setting up a publication on another test database on the same server to make sure the problem was not...more >>

accumulating shapshot folder in repldata
Posted by stephanie at 4/12/2007 9:08:03 PM
Hi all, I found that my testing server is accumulating shapshot folder in repldata. Everytime, we refresh the tables (snapshot publication), a new folder created without the old folders. And I found that there is at most 1 snapshot folder remain in production server. Any parameter to adju...more >>

push subscription error Xprepl.dll
Posted by mj at 4/12/2007 4:32:19 PM
I used a working publication as a template to create a publication. Everything was good I then opened the propeties and added a push subscribtion and selected execute snapshot immediately. The merge snapshot agent errored out. A review of the session shows the following: connection to p...more >>

Merge snapshot frequency
Posted by Ravi Lobo at 4/12/2007 1:22:04 PM
I have the following scenario, 1.merge replication with 3000 subscribers 2.I have dynamic publication (NOT dynamic snapshot) 3.we observed that synchronization is slow whenever we do a data import at the publisher 4.because of this we ran the snapshot agent immediately after the data impor...more >>

Filter records during Transactional Replication.
Posted by Query Builder at 4/12/2007 11:09:06 AM
Hi All, I have a table with a column DeletedDate which stores a logical delete of a record. I need to set up transactional replication for reporting purposes that this deleted records should not be replicated to the subscriber. That is, if i see a value on the DeletedDate, I don't want that...more >>



merge repl error invalid parameter
Posted by jaylou at 4/12/2007 6:54:05 AM
I have been having a weird situation with this branches replication lately. For some reason it was failing due to an invalid object on the Branches database. I added the objects to the data base and the sync worked fine, but the step still failed due to "Message The parameter is incorrect. ...more >>

Deadlock Issues When performing reports on subscriber
Posted by Larry Herbinaux at 4/11/2007 6:28:01 PM
We have transactional replication being performed from our TX Database Server to our Reporting Database Server. All of our reports are run off of our Reporting Database Server. We have no queries that are performing Update or Exclusive locks except for the sp_MS stored procedures being used ...more >>

Merge Replication Status
Posted by Brian Bunin at 4/11/2007 4:45:36 PM
I'm using sp_replmonitorhelpmergesession to determine the status of multiple push subscriptions. When I set the Merge Agent to Slow Link, I get a status of 4 and the message "No Data needed to be Merged" when there are no changes. I'd like to get it to return the Status 4 when it's idle...more >>

data update suggestions
Posted by Sas at 4/11/2007 8:40:04 AM
We have production database (1TB, sql server 2005) and we will receive daily updates from a vendor. All the updates will be imported in another database first (source db). What would be the best way to apply the updated information to the from the source DB to the production DB (example of u...more >>

merge replication picking up tables not in the articles
Posted by jaylou at 4/11/2007 7:18:04 AM
I am having a strange issue with my merge repl. I have set my verbose level to 2 which is the highest, and I see an error on a table that is not in my articles being published but the repl is failing for it. the table exists in my centralized database but not in my branch's. I can't find an...more >>

Merge replication over web - compressed snapshot - unable to retreive file
Posted by narasimha.gm NO[at]SPAM gmail.com at 4/11/2007 1:31:26 AM
Hi, I have the following setup Merge replication with Web Synchronization: Server: SQL Server 2005 Subscriber: SQL Server Express edition The system uses parametrized filters based on HOST_NAME and I have selected 'Automatically define a partition and generate a snapshot when a new subsc...more >>

After restore db, transactional replication can't delete.
Posted by Chen at 4/10/2007 2:54:00 PM
Hi, Can someone help me with the following situation? 1) I did dump for database test with transactional replication set up on it, push data from test to test1 db on the same server. 2) Drop the transactional replication of publication for test database. 3) Drop the subscriber db test1. 4)...more >>

Can I use Merge Replication via Developer Edition to Cluster?
Posted by Robert Reist at 4/10/2007 10:20:02 AM
I am a DBA in one IT group and we do our development work on the developer edition of SQL Server 2005 and migrate everything to our SQL Server 2005 cluster for production. We want to use merge replication between the Developer Edition and the Cluster but I am being told by the DBA on the cl...more >>

Non-Standard Port Problems
Posted by Greg Larsen at 4/9/2007 9:58:00 PM
We are moving to SQL Server 2005 and have decided to use a non-standard port number (port number other than 1433). We also decided to turn off the SQL Browser Services as well. This was done to enhance security, so now application need to provide <servername>,<port> number when connecting to...more >>

Backup to Network
Posted by John Wright at 4/9/2007 11:30:34 AM
We just recently experiences a catastrophic hard drive failure. It is off right now to the data recovery folks and I hope we get something back. In the mean time I have been asked to come up with some backup plan. Because the backups were on the same drive as the database, this is not a goo...more >>

A useable but non-updating subscriber?
Posted by Nancy Lytle at 4/9/2007 11:23:18 AM
Is there a way in SQL 2005 to be able to use a subscriber to test run data and not have the updated data sent back to the publisher using any method of replication? We will have 1 publisher and 2 subscribers (all 2005), and we would like to use one of the subscribers for running test jobs, wi...more >>

Regarding reinitialize the replication
Posted by Iter at 4/9/2007 9:20:02 AM
Hi Guys, I have issue in my replication that there is a duplicate data caused the primary key confict in the subscribtion, which somebody inserted a row in the subscription in stead of in the publication. When I tried to fix it and got message that ask me to reinitialize the replication. Then...more >>

Data Transfer via Email
Posted by casy at 4/9/2007 1:04:43 AM
Hi, I have a client that needs to transfer data changes from remote SQL sites to their HQ central DB. I would prefer to use replication but unfortunately this is not an option as they only want to use email. We did a home rolled system about 10 years ago using Access with custom flags for e...more >>

creating new table in MERGE PUBLICATION
Posted by SANJAY PAWAR at 4/9/2007 12:00:00 AM
I'm using merge replication with one publisher and 7-8 subscribers @ various locations. Everything is running very smoothly using identity seeds. Now the situation needs to create new table at publisher side. If i create new table @ publisher side and add it into the subscription, will it...more >>

Data aggregation, syhcronization, and search
Posted by crbd98 NO[at]SPAM yahoo.com at 4/8/2007 9:49:24 PM
Hello All, I know that this problem is not SQL Server specific but I decided to post it here because it is a problem that I am certain many of you expericenced (or at least thought about). In my system, I have a central SQL Server Database and number of remote "data providers". Some of thes...more >>

When adding encryption
Posted by mj at 4/8/2007 6:48:02 AM
I have been asked to encrypt SSN's to a published table. How do I proceed?...more >>


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