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Replicating schema changes between production and development databases [duplicate]

Not too sure if this would be a good and proper way to go about things, so I apologize if I'm kind of far off. Currently running Microsoft SQL Server 2005, and in this we have a database for a ...
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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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SQL Server-MySQL master-master replication

We are looking into setting up a master-master replicated MSSQL database and I am interested to hear of any potential pitfalls that we may run into along the way and generally any advice that you ...
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Merge Statement + Replication difference for SQL Server 2012

We have a SSIS package that will pull from a source database and run a merge statement to put the data into a "Master" database. (Eventually the "Master" database will be the source of truth, but we ...
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Is replication from SQL Server 2008 to PostgreSql possible?

Is it possible ? Sql Server as publisher(master) and PostgreSql as slave(subscriber) ? Any type of replication really.
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Modifying replication distributor & publisher

I have a SQL Server 2008 transactional replication setup as follows: 192.168.100.1 <-- Distributor 192.168.100.2 <-- Publisher 192.168.100.3 <-- Subscriber Our network team want to change ...
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Oracle to SQL Server DDL replication

We have this customer requirement to do DDL + DML transactional replication from Oracle to SQL Server 2012. The DML part is straightforward. There are multiple options to choose from including the SQL ...
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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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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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Pull Subscription: process cannot read file due to OS error 5

I am trying to migrate a working pull subscription for transactional replication from one subscribing server to a new one. The subscribing server is at another site and is connected via a VPN tunnel. ...
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How to get replication from a SQL Server mirroring setup 2008 R2

I have a mirroring setup in the UK (principal, mirror,witness) which hosts a number of databases. failover is automatic for individual databases and local client connections are managed using dynamic ...
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which sql server edition is good for practice [closed]

Which SQL Server (free/trail) would be good to install, which requires minimum resource and have maximum features. I mean, I can practice mirroring,logshipping and replication. I found this link, but ...
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Replication Monitor reports little to no latency, but my tracer token is taking hours to go from Distributor to Subscriber

I sent a tracer token through a replication job that was reporting about 2 seconds of latency about two and a half hours ago. I sent the token through because I noticed a row that was inserted on a ...
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Get the list of all Tables, Views, Stored procedures that are not added in a publication for replication

How do i get the list of all Tables, Views, Stored procedures that are NOT added in a publication for replication?Can you help me to make the stored Proc for that?I am new to Replication....Thanks
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Huge sizes Replication Tables in Sql Server db, how to deal with?

I've a sql server database that is configured to work with old software, i've no details about the software, but i know that DB uses replication. the DB size dramatically increases. When i ...
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Merge Replication is Slow for Uploads

I have implemented merge replication with pull subscriptions in production environment. Initially it was working fine, but now a days, its too slow to upload any changes to publisher , but subscribers ...
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What will happen if i change the compatibility level of Distribution Database [duplicate]

I have implemented merge replication in production environment, initially it was in SQL Server 2005, then it was upgraded in-line to SQL Server 2008 R2. Later on all databases compatibility level was ...
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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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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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Can I use replication/mirroring to have a “Current” database and a “Full History” copy?

I have a database that is used for current operations. The amount of data is starting to get a bit to much for the applications using it. Most of the data is older and is very rarely needed. I am ...
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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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Conflict handling, SQL Server 2008 R2 Peer to Peer

I have a Peer to Peer replication topology set up between two SQL Server 2008 R2 servers. I was doing some testing on fault tolerance and conflict handling. I have conflict detection enabled, and ...
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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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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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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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SQL Server 2005 Replication

I am in the process of creating Replication between 2 Remote Servers, server 1 is the Distributor and Publisher and server 2 is the Subscription. server 1 windows 2003 server 192.168.10.1 connected ...
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SQL Server replication for off site copy

We have our Primary SQL Servers in-house (15 primary servers at the moment (500 databases approx overall), most of the servers have hex core processors). These are mirrored to other backup servers in ...
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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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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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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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sp_startpublication_snapshot Parameter(s)

I am creating a stored procedure that: Restores a DB from a .bak giving the .mdf and .ldf a new name (so we have have several copies of the same DB up (If specified in the SP's parameter) Creates ...
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Replication and linked server security

I have three servers: P1, A1, and R1. P1 and A1 are production oltp servers. On each there are two databases that are being replicated down to R1 for olap (mostly SSRS reports). I am working on ...
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Does sp_droparticle @force_invalidate_snapshot=1 invalidate the entire snapshot?

Forgive this simple SQL Server question, but if I just want to remove a single stored procedure from snapshop replication (2008 SQL Server R2), if I call sp_droparticle, will it invalidate the entire ...
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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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SQL Server Database Replication - Master / Slave configuration

I have a database server, SQL Server 2008, that's inside a private network. Now I need to make a database there available for a web server for my web application so that people don't need to come to ...
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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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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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Recommendation for synchronizing SQL Server DBs

I have two databases, prod and dev. Each DB is about 500GB. At the end of each work day, the prod database gets several million new rows and several thousands of updates. After the data is loaded in ...
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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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considerations when using triggers on a replicated (target) database

Our SQL Sever 2008 application database is replicated from Server A to Server B (push replication). We use the copy, let's call it database_b, on Server B to create reports and run other queries so ...
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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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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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Restrict record to be update or deleted according to dates inside row for SQL Server 2005

I have transaction replication between two SQL Servers. For testing purposes I deleted a lot of records at the subscriber that still existed at the publisher. I now know that if someone updates, ...
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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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