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SQL Server Replication: “ALTER TABLE ALTER COLUMN” is not propagated to subscribers

We are running SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 as publisher & distributor, and SQL Server 2005 SP3 as subscriber. The replication of schema changes is activated, and the replication has been running for ...
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Syncronize mysql databases between local and hosted servers automatically

We have many website with Development , Staging and Production Server. we have many developers for many projects, we need a solution to synchronize the database with developer database with staging ...
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How to reinsert corrected rows from the conflict table?

I have a bidirectional merge replication. I had failure constraints because the primary key was just integer. I change the primary key to the old primary key + a location identifier.The problem is how ...
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Advise On SQL Server Data Replication

We have a huge enterprise system, with geographically seperated SQL servers. We have some requirements related with data replication between these servers. We have considered the Sync Framework ...
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SQL Server replication conflicts after migration from 2000 to 2008

I got a suggestion over at Stackoverflow to post here....greatful for any and all help. Please bear with me I think this might take a while to explain. For many years now my company has hosted a ...
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What type of SQL Server Replication fits our scenario? Merge or Transactional?

Background In our current setup, we have a single SQL Server 2005 instance on our remotely hosted web server. We additionally have another (non-MSSQL) database which we use for our POS system, which ...
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How can we achive the replica of databases for SQL Server?

I have been working in VB6 to VB.NET migration project.In VB6 project they have individual databases (access db .mdb) for every user now we made that to centralized database using SQL Server. In the ...
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SQL Merge Replication: Cannot resolve conflict

I have a SQL Merge Replication over HTTP (Replisapi.dll). I'm not very familiar with the internas of the replication conflict solving because it was always working so far. Now I have two conflicts in ...
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Minimising downtime implementing merge replication on live system

Background We have three Servers running SQL Server 2008 which all contain a Product database. These are currently kept in sync once per day by sending a copy of the MDF to the two Subscribing ...
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How to replicate from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2008 R2?

I have SQL Server 2000 as publisher and SQL Server 20008 R2 as subscriber. I want to replicate data from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2008 R2 on a different machine. Primary key fields are not ...
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Oneway sync of two SQL Servers via FTP

I need to replicate data from a ‘master’ SQL Server out to a number of replicas. Luckily the data only flows from the ‘master’ to the replicas. I need to replicate both schema and data. Data size ...
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Upgrade SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2012

I have a test environment set up with the following: Virtual Machine (Hyper-V) Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1(x64-bit) Windows SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition SP4 (x64-bit)(default instance name) 1 ...
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Merge replication SQL Server 2008 publisher with SQL Server 2012 subscriber

is this somehow possible to have SQL Server 2008 publisher with a SQL Server 2012 subscriber for merge replication?
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SQL Server 2005 merge replication failure

We have a customer who, when trying to sync a client (subscriber) to the server (publisher,) receives the following error: 2012-11-30 21:03:33.334 Percent Complete: 18 2012-11-30 21:03:33.334 Data ...
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Why Do Replication Deletes Require sysadmin Access

I am running merge replication with SQL 2012. There seems to be a nasty consequence of the delete triggers added for replication in SQL 2012. Inside the delete triggers are this, select @xe_message ...
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Does The Stored Procedure sp_removedbreplication Remove Rowguids

In merge replication if I run sp_removedbreplication will that remove rowguids or not? Will it take into account the preserve_rowguidcol values in the sysmergearticles table?
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Locking And Blocking With Merge Replication

I am using merge replication in SQL 2012 with web sync. When I insert records into the top tables in my filter hierarchy it causes a lot of locking on the tables, including the merge replication ...
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The issue of sp_MScheckIsPubOfSub stored procedure

We have SQL Server 2008 R2 Merge replication set up. We have 20+ push subscriptions. Once in a while I get the following error message during the sync: Error messages: The merge process could not ...
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Merge Replicate, reinitialise with a different part of the data

I have a set of database with merge replicate configured between them. The publisher is an aggregate of three sets of data. Call them set 0, 1, and 2 There are subscribers that grab one set of the ...
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Merge Replication Finding Session Id

I am using merge replication with SQL 2012. I am writing a custom business logic handler, and would like to know if there is a way to get a session id? For instance if the custom business logic ...
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How to understand what Columns Have Changed in Merge Replication

I am using merge replication in SQL 2012. Some of my merge articles use column level tracking. I am trying to understand how to use the 'lineage', and 'colv1' fields in the MSmerge_contents table to ...
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Table with identity column in merge replication

I have a table in SQL Server 2005 and I have an IDENTITY(1,1) property set for an ID column. Records are inserted in a table at a local server as well as a remote server. I am using Merge ...
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How Can I Isolate A Merge Replication Timeout

I am using merge replication in SQL 2012 with web sync. When I create my subscription I am getting a timeout. The error message is not clear about cause of the timeout, but what I do know is if I ...
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How can I modify a trigger at subscribers SQL Server 2005?

I have a SQL Server 2005 publisher with SQL Server 2005 subscribers and one SQL Server 2000 subscriber running merge replication. Is there any way to modify triggers at a subscriber with the ...
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What is the Maximum Merge Articles in Merge Replication [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Hard limitation for merge replication article count? I am using merge replication in SQL 2012. I am looking here: Maximum Capacity Specifications for SQL Server (2012) ...
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Multiple Merge Replications on same SQL Server Database Conflicts

I have 2 separate merge replications on the same database on a server, one named 'POC' with a single subscriber running continuously, and another named 'Clubs' with ~50 subscribers. As of recently, ...
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How to Rename Table or Field With Merge Replication

I am using merge replication with SQL 2012. I am trying to rename a published table, and rename a published field. These operations are not permitted in merge replication. However I can think of an ...
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How to user the Tablediff Utility with Replication Filters

I am using merge replication in SQL 2012. I am trying out the TableDiff utility to show non convergence. I see a problem with this approach though. This is because I am using parameterised filters to ...
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Why Regenerate Snapshots For Merge Replication

I am in the process of implementing merge replication in SQL 2012 with web sync. I am wondering two things, Why is it suggested to regenerate the snapshots every 14 days by default? With web sync ...
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Merge replication - can't create snapshot – timeout

I have a SQL Server 2008 database, and I need a merge replication because I want to sync with mobile devices afterwards. So I created a replication but when it comes to start the snapshot agent, the ...
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How to Remove Articles Based on User

I am using merge replication on SQL 2012. I have a very large database with a large number of tables. The subscribers are using netbooks. I have a filtering scheme that controls which tables end up ...
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How Much Overhead Does Web Sync Add?

I am running merge replication in SQL2012 using web sync. Has anybody done any experiments to compare the performance of web sync to connecting to replication using a straight TCP/IP connection? ...
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How To Speed up Merge Replication

I am running SQL2012 merge replication on a netbook using SQL Express as a subscriber. The netbook has 1GB of RAM. The replication process works quite well, but it is when it comes to applying the ...
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Merge replication with PDAs AND P2P replication between servers?

We're currently building a setup to scan tickets at an event. We plan on having 2 servers at each entrance but can't have a local link between the two. We have scanners (sqlCE) and half of them are ...
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Is there a way to start a script on the publisher when synchronization starts?

I am using merge replication with pull subscriptions and Web Sync. What is the easiest way to start a SQL script on the publication database when a subscriber starts the synchronization process? ...