One of the three replication method in SQL server .Merge replication is typically used in server-to-client environments.
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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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Hard limitation for merge replication article count?
A bit of background. We developed an app that uses merge replication. Right now, we are currently publishing about 212 articles, and everything is fine, as it appears to fall into the 256 article ...
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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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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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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 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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SQL Server distribution database log file grows uncontrollably after full database backup
We have a merge replication environment that is pushing to 8 subscribers. This is working fine. Our distribution database is setup in Simple recovery mode. We have a maintenance plan that will backup ...
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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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Querying number of subscription to each publication
We have a production box that has about 60 publications on it. Some of these are used, and some seem to not be... What I need to do is create, or find, a script that will get the count of ...
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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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merge replication too big
I have multiple handhelds which sync their data via merge replication. from time to time, new core data is imported on the server-database.
for some reasons I keep the old data in the databse and set ...
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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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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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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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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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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 update conflict resolver when upgrading from SQL-Server 2005 to SQL-Server 2008
We have recently upgraded from SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2008 (R2, SP1). This upgrade included some publications, where all tables are published with a default conflict resolver based on the ...
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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 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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Deadlock on Merge replication
I'm having a really confusing problem on the msmerge_contents table on some
of my merge replication databases. It seems I'm receiving a dead lock on the exact
same row on the same index on the table ...
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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?
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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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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 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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The Merge Agent failed because the schema of the article at the Publisher does not match the schema of the article at the Subscriber.
When syncing a SQL Server 2008 subscriber with a publisher, the sync fails at around 98% with this error message:
The Merge Agent failed because the schema of the article at the Publisher does not ...
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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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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)
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Transactional versus Merge Replication (Restore backup after downtime)
I have the following transactional replication setup:
Windows Server 2008 with SQL Server 2008 Enterprise
Server A: Master, has a database with a table, publisher
Server B: Slave, subscriber ...
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Working Around Filtering Problems in Merge Replication
I am in the process of defining filters on a merge replication publication for our database.
The problem I am coming up against is that merge replication has these rules, I don't like to call them ...
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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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Uninitialized Merge replication subscription
I have 3 separate SQL Server 2012 databases running on 3 VM's. I have successfully configured one pull subscription to the distributor but when I add a 2nd subscription on another SQL Server the ...
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Estimated versus actual query plan with function calls
I have this query on SQL server, a merge replication query:
SELECT DISTINCT
b.tablenick,
b.rowguid,
c.generation,
sys.fn_MSgeneration_downloadonly
(
c.generation,
...
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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 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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How To Diagnose Slow sp_mssetupbelongs
I am using merge replication with SQL 2012.
When performing a clean sync using the merge agent I am getting a timeout on this stored procedure,
sp_mssetupbelongs
I am wondering what the best way to ...
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MSMerge_contents Table Populated After One Sync
I am running merge replication with SQL 2012.
When I first create my publication the MSMerge_contents table is populated with a large number of records with the colv1 being set to 0xFF.
When I run ...
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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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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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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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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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Identifying connection and publisher vs subscriber in merge replication scheme
We have an app that uses a central SQL Server 2008 database for folks here in the building on the domain. For teams out in the field - they connect to a local version of SQL Express while offline and ...
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Why would “Drop Database” fail on local SQL Server 2005 Express instance?
I am trying to run the below code. It works for me but not for at least some of my users it doesn't work. It doesn't seem to error just no actually remove the DB's.
string sqlConnectionString=@"Data ...
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Does sp_addtabletocontents Use Precomputed Partitions
I am using merge replication in SQL 2012.
When I bulk insert rows into a table, and run this stored procedure to add references into the merge tracking table,
sp_addtabletocontents
Is that missing ...
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Replicating a Table Structure With no Data Using Merge Replication
I am using merge replication with SQL 2012.
I have a table, and it would be useful to propogate that table to the subscribers, but just the table structure, not the actual data.
The data in the ...
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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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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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SQL Server 2008 R2 - Merge Replication - Can the Distribution Database size cause replication problems?
Setup:
We have a SQL Server 2008 R2 instance running on a central server.
The server is a merge-replication publisher.
We have 'N' subsribers running SQL Server 2008 Express. 'N' can grow to any ...
