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distribution.dbo.MSdistribution_history comments explanation

The comment column of distributor.dbo.MSdistribution_history contains comments such as <stats state="2" fetch="11554" wait="214007" cmds="17898546" callstogetreplcmds="106880"> ...
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Transactional Replication Concerns

We are debating an architecture that employs sql server 2012 and transaction replication. Idea is to offload reporting activity to a secondary server and have the ability to include/exclude what is ...
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Bandwidth comparison between log shipping and transactional replication

Which technique uses more network bandwidth: Log shipping Transactional Replication Can some one share any benchmarks for the same ? What would be the Memory and I/O impact on the Primary server ...
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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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Why do I get “The initial snapshot for publication is not yet available.”?

We are using Transactional Replications with updatable subscriptions. 1 publisher, 1 subscriber. SQL Replication started encountering a constraint error on 3/6 at 10AM because people at two different ...
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Replication between SQL Server 2005 and Azure database

Is it possible to set up transitional replication between a SQL Server 2005 and a SQL Azure database? My server is nearing end of life and I would rather migrate to a cloud infrastructure instead of ...
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Cannot delete publication

When attempting to delete a publication, I am getting the error cannot drop publication 'XX' cannot drop article 'XX'. The subscription has been deleted at the subscriber. Any ideas on how I can ...
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SQL Server Troubleshooting Replication and Long-Running fn_dblog query

I am trying to get (pull) Transactional Replication working again for a subscriber. Currently, in Replication Monitor I am seeing messages in the Publisher to Distributor tab and the Distributor to ...
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What causes Transactional SQL Server Replication to need to be rebuilt/re-initialised

In a company I've recently joined we have two SQL Server instances, connected via transactional replication. I'm a developer and hadn't really come across SQL replication before so am a complete ...
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How to restore replication after server crash

We had two databases on one SQL Server 2005 instance with transactional replication between them (3 tables as articles). This server acted both as publisher and distributor. Then the RAID on the ...
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2012 Transactional replication not delivering new articles

I have added a new article to an existing push publication with the following code sp_addarticle @publication='statics', article='FlightBaggageMarkup_tbl',source_object='FlightBaggageMarkup_tbl' ...
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Transactional Replication not sending all commands

I have a transactional replication topology as follows: NY Publication Database same server holds distributor NY - Subscriber LON - Subscriber HK - Subscriber We are using bog standard, one-way ...
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Cleaning up transaction replication del/ins/upd stored procedures?

I'm referring to the ones that start with: dbo.sp_MSdel... dbo.sp_MSins... dbo.sp_MSupd... I've noticed they are not removed when I run exec sp_dropsubscription on the Publisher then run ...
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What is the difference between 'two way transactional replication' and 'peer to peer replication'?

Can someone explain in detail the exact differences between 2 way transactional replication and peer to peer replication?
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SQL Replication Commands

I'm trying to figure out how i can get the number of commands over the last day for a sql server replication. Transactional / Snapshot / Merge. I really want to be able to calculate the average ...