One of the three replication method in SQL server .Merge replication is typically used in server-to-client environments.

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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 Use Publication Without Precompiled Partitions

I am using SQL 2012 with merge replication. Our setup is quite complicated and thus it seems running the publication with precompiled partitions is not going to work. The merge agent is slow to do ...
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Dropping One Computed Column Causes All Computed Columns To No Longer Replicate

We recently dropped a computed column from a table that was participating in merge replication. After issuing the statement the other two computed columns remained in the table but stopped ...
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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 to tell what user has synced

I have set up merge replication web sync to sync a publication from a SQL 2012 database. I am trying to make some parameterised filters using SUSER_SNAME() or HOST_NAME(). When I do a sync is it ...
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Can You Replicate Sequences

In SQL 2012 can you replicate sequence objects, and if so do changes to the sequence (including consumption of values) get replicated? If not is there a good reason why this was not included?
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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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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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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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Merge Replication Subquery Filters

I am using merge replication with SQL 2012. I have a number of articles in my publication and will have to come up with quite an elaborate set of filters. If I add a filter on my article it can ...
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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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Merge Replication identity field issues

One of our clients is using our software with merge replication of a database on a SQL Server 2008 R2 machine. There are two production environments in separate geographical locations only one of ...
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SQL Server merge replication across domains

I'm getting the following message when trying to set up merge replication on SQL Server 2008 R2: The Merge Agent failed to locate the partitioned snapshot for this subscription in the expected ...
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How to troubleshoot SQL Server Merge Replication Conflict?

I have SQL Server 2008 R2 Merge Replication setup. I have 2 publications for the same database with 20+ subscribers. The logic of our application prevents changing the same data from 2 subscribers ...
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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 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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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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Can a Merge Filter Have Multiple Parent Tables?

I am using merge replication in SQL 2012. I have a situation where I am using join filters to filter out what records are being replicated to the subscriber. When I look at the stored procedure, ...
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How to Fix Merge Replication Error

I am using merge replication with SQL server 2012. I have set up a subscription and publication and everything was working. I now get this error message, Cannot have a dynamic snapshot job with both ...
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Subscribing to Subsets of Data in Merge Replication

I am replacing a custom sychronisation system with merge replication. The current system on the server side allows you to select what data a client can sync to their device and edit, i.e. they will ...
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How to merge data in database [closed]

Say I have 2 businesses ID Tittle Longitude Latitude starbucks-coffee Starbucks Coffee 106, 6 starbucks-buckx Starbucx Coffee 106, 6 Many other table points to these 2 rows Say I want to merge ...

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