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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 creating a fixup index that's sleeping, but blocking other processes

I've just migrated my ERP database server from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2008 R2 (both Enterprise Edition) and that migration went fairly smoothly. However, now that I'm trying to recreate ...
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Distribution Agent running but subscription does not exist?

I have an issue where in my replication topology, the distribution agent is running, and says there are no commands to distribute. However, checking the undistributed commands, it shows there are a ...
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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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Replication Error when adding small table as new article

I have just added a small (200 row) table to my current replication which has now broken my entire replication scenario as it seems to have broken the Log reader. The 2 tables are unrelated. I am ...
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Initializing Transactional Replication From Backup

There is an option when setting up a publication for replication to Allow Initialization From Backup. We have been creating replicated databases for several years now and have always initialized from ...
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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 ...
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SQL Server 2008 R2 Transactional Replication “Cannot insert explicit value for identity column…”

Right now I'm having an "identity crisis" with transactional replication in SQL Server 2008 R2. The database is running in compatibility 90. There's a table that has an identity column and won't ...
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How to break out of error loop in transactional replication?

I was running some simple tests on a publisher and subscriber on the same instance: I inserted 50,000 rows into a published article and the data was correctly pushed to the subscriber. I ...