Replication is the process of sharing any level of information so as to ensure consistency between redundant hardware/software resources to improve reliability, fault-tolerance, and accessibility

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Post replication powershell script - on subscriber

I need to execute a command before a replication executes on the publisher, and after, on the subscriber. I seem to have it working on the publisher, by adding another step in the replication agent. ...
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Oracle symmetrical one-way replication for cheap HA: unfashionable or technically unfeasible?

We have two smallish unrelated databases on two big Oracle Enterprise servers. Instead of buying more licenses and servers for high-availability replicas, can we replicate database B to server A and ...
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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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3 Databases, Best Replication Setup?

We have 3 DB servers, two of them i.e. db1, db2, are located in the same data center. The other one i.e. drdb, is located in a different site. Currently, the replication setup for these servers is of ...
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Mysql restore all data from Master

MySQl Slave replication server got crashed and I am missing around 60 tables, some table structure and data which present in master and by DB size is more than 25Gb, How I Can restore to resolve ...
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Restoring MySQL database with db dump and binlogs

I have a database running on our production web server that I have set up as a master with a single slave in another datacenter. When reading through the MySQL replication setup instructions, they ...
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Scaling Percona datacenters: setup and replication

Since our startup has taken off nicely we are now meeting with some of those issues that you always assumed would NEVER effect you. We have already scaled alot of our application stack: we offloaded ...
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Will changing server_id on master break replication?

I have few MySql absolutely isolated trees, each one of them has one master and few slaves. For purposes of automation I need to set the same server_id to all masters (this will simplify the usage ...
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Easy Postgresql master/slave replication with automatic failover on Linux?

I need a reliable SQL DB for our application and have been looking at Postgresql's streaming replication support. It seems that it's not hard to setup master/slave replication and you can use the ...
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Length of LOB data (%1) to be replicated exceeds configured maximum %2

We recently hit this error shortly after enabling replication on a table. Length of LOB data (%1) to be replicated exceeds configured maximum %2 I've found solutions to this problem already: ...
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Resuming Replication w/ Database Mirroring when Principle is unavailable

I'm trying to setup a disaster recovery scenario and I'm stuck at this particular point. Here's what I've done so far: A) Created principal database on Server A and and mirror on Server B ...
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Real time replication issue - can't use transactional replication

We have an existing Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 database that we need to real time replicate to an identical off-site live web database. Transactional replication and merge replication will not be ...
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Looking for a good 3rd party Microsoft SQL replication app! [closed]

We have an existing Microsoft 2008 SQL R2 database that we need to real time replicate to an identical off-site live web database. Transactional replication and merge replication will not be able to ...
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Transactional replication from SQL Server 2000 to 2008

I have legacy databases on two SQL Server 2000 servers that I am trying to replicate to a SQL Server 2008 R2 database using transactional replication. The 2008 server is not in the same LAN, so I am ...
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Once in a while synchronization of the independently updated mysql databases problem

I have a production database and a test database running on MySQL with MyISAM and InnoDB tables, which are updated independently. The Production database is updated by system and sometimes by a user. ...
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Pgpool install - libpq is not installed or libpq is old

Based on the documentation here, I want to create a pgpool II with PostgreSQL databases. When I try to install, I encounter this error: configure: error: libpq is not installed or libpq is old ...
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Pull replication stuck on Microsoft SQL Server 2000. What is the safest way to get it running again?

I believe the steps necessary would be: Generate scripts to "create or enable" (including replication jobs) by right clicking the subscription in question in "local subscriptions" and saving the ...
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When using a master plus multiple slaves, how do I change over from one server to a brand new one with minimal downtime?

In my particular case, I'm using Heroku Postgres (repackaged Amazon EC2 instances running PostgreSQL), but platform-agnostic answers are also good! Heroku's instructions describe the process for ...
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How can you stop MySQL slave from replicating changes to the 'mysql' database?

I have my slave set to not replicate the 'mysql' database as described in this SHOW SLAVE STATUS\G; Slave_IO_State: Waiting for master to send event Master_Host: 127.0.0.1 ...
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How can I replicate MySQL data from many servers to one?

All over the internet I can find manuals on how to replicate databases from master(s) to slaves. What I need is to continuously keep a copy of table from 5 different servers in sync. We have one ...
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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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Replicating only changes made by a specific database user

I am performing parallel testing. We have upgraded the legacy batch jobs to a new framework which we need to test against the existing batch jobs. In the existing setup, I have web application which ...
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Can I replicate to a pre-existing database?

I am going to test this out, however I'd like to know what the forum would say. I have 2 SQL servers with replication setup between them. I am now adding another new SQL Server and I want this one ...
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Does SQL Server Snapshot replication completely copy the data every time or does it issue deltas?

I am looking at snapshot replication between two servers. Here is what I have: 500GB database ~500MB nightly bcp loads ~50MB daily transactions I was asking other DBAs in the company about which ...
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Can I replicate views with Slony?

Can I feed some SQL that creates a view to Slony? I have some SQL that does CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW name_of_view and so on, passes it to slonik_execute_script, and then tries to run slonik_create_set ...
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Impact of changing the DB compatibility level for a Published replicated DB from 90 to 100

I have a SQL Server 2008 R2 server with a bunch of published databases that are currently operating under compatibility level 90 (2005). The subscription databases are also SQL Server 2008 R2, ...
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Some queries slower in MySQL 5.5 than 5.0?

We have an exceptionally inefficient process (1.3 million selects, 232k updates) that I'm now recoding to be 1 select and 50 updates. In the meantime, though, today's process ran. We recently updated ...
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Replicate from master-master setup

I have MySQL Master-Master replication on 2 servers. I want to replicate to another slave server. When I configure the slave to replicate from master1, only data added on master1 is replicated. ...
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Looking for an efficient way to fix “Could not parse relay log event entry…” error

I have a corrupt relay log in MySQL 5.0 and looking for the steps to fix replication without having to reprocess all the binary logs from the master again. Here is the full error message if you are ...
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What is the Best Way to create MySQL Master-Slave Replication Setup and Troubleshoot it?

I am very new to Database Administration. I face a lot of problems while setting up mysql master-slave replication. I also face regular mysql replication troubleshooting issues. Can anybody helps ...
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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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Slave I/O thread dies very often

I have MySQL Replication working between two servers in master-master mode. Replication has been working from day 1. The IO Thread and the SQL Thread has never died. However, the Slave SQL thread ...
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MySQL replication - slave is continuously lagging behind master

I am using MySQL-5.1.50 with a Master-slave replication setup. Most of the time the slave is lagging behind the master. When I run show processlist;, there is no query that's taking a long time. ...
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Replicate DB2 table to SQL Server 2008

I need to replicate data from a DB2 database into a SQL Server Database (along the lines of about 80 tables). I can create an SSIS package, to just flat copy the data from one to another pretty easy, ...
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MySQL Master-Slave Replication Cross Database

I am setting up Replication for cross Database as i have set 2 variables in Slave' s my.cnf as replicate-do-db=database_name and Replicate-wild-do-table=database_name.% ,But i am not able to get ...
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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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Is MySQL replication suitable for a Write Mostly application?

I'm considering adding another server to my one-server setup application with 600GB MySQL DB. The db and the apache are both running from the same server. In order to avoid backup downtime and improve ...
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PostgreSQL replication and large import

I am tasked with making large PostgreSQL imports to master instance, and then replicate it across the nodes as read-only data. Still, the CMS system has to be able to write data and replicate across ...
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Removing Archive Logs after PostgreSQL PITR online-recovery

I'm using pgpool-II + PostgreSQL 8.4 on three servers: primary + standby1 + standby2. Replication mode is "on" Load balance mode is "on" (between primary and standby1) I followed the official ...
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How to resolve the master server shut down/unavailability in mysql with master - slave replication

Let us suppose that we have a master/slave setup and the application is running fine for the time being. All of a sudden the master server suddenly shuts down due to some problem. Now how can I ...
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Replicating multiple databases into one database

I would like to replicate multiple databases on different servers into one master database. I have 5 different instances on separate servers all running SQL 2008 R2. The schemas and structure are all ...
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Oracle Data Guard Fast-Start Failover Questions

Here is the setup in question: Fast-Start Failover: ENABLED Threshold: 30 seconds Target: dbabc Observer: (none) Lag Limit: 30 seconds (not in use) Shutdown Primary: FALSE ...
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MySQL : Does 'bytes_sent' and 'bytes_received' include mysqldump data?

I'm trying to estimate my db traffic not including backups (mysql 5.1.41). I use show global status; to get the parameters bytes_sent and bytes_received. Questions Do these numbers include ...
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MySQL replication fails due to duplicate keys after master is restarted

I'm new to MySQL load balancing, I want to try the master-slave concept. Whenever I setup master-slave for the first time, and both have up-to-date fresh data, that works perfectly fine. However, ...
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PostgreSQL streaming replication broken: invalid magic number, out-of-sequence timeline ID

For some reason, my PostgreSQL slave no longer streaming-replicates changes on the master. It was working before, for a while, but I recently noticed that the slave's database contents is old, and ...
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Streaming Replication in PostgreSQL

I'm trying to set up two PostgreSQL servers on one machine and perform a streaming replication. I have succeeded once, but when i've tried again following exactly the same steps it doesn't work.. ...
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MySQL replication backup

How to take MySQL Master-Master and Master-Slave replication backup?. I have setup Master-Master replication with a separate slave for each master on Ubuntu. What happens if, I issue or schedule ...
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Rows already DELETEd on MySQL slave; How to DELETE on master?

I have a handful of rows that exist in my MySQL master but not in my slave. Replication is running ok and these rows are unlikely to ever be referenced as it is a store-and-forget type of table. ...
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Ports necessary for Oracle 11g Replication across a firewall?

We have two Oracle 11g Enterprise Edition servers that need to replicate data via Oracle streams. However, the two servers are on untrusted domains and connect via a VPN. On end of the connection is ...
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MySQL - Partially restore binary log

I have restored a dump into MySQL. I also have a binary log, which I want to partially restore, let's say from position 10 - 2500. How can I do that?

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