Year: 2010

Tune Replication Performance using PacketSize

Contributed by: Karol Korasadowicz Depending on type of data being replicated and network throughput adjusting the PacketSize parameter for the Distribution Agent may increase your overall Transactional Replication performance. -PacketSize packet_size Is the packet size, in bytes. The default is 4096 (bytes). http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms147328.aspx To see which setting has most impact, create test scenario which inserts/updates
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Divide and Conquer Transactional Replication using Tracer Tokens

As we know, Transactional Replication moves data from the Publisher to the Distributor then to the Subscribers.  When working, data flows near real-time through both of these steps.  When problems occur which interrupt this flow, latency is introduced.  The challenge is to find which step is contributing to the overall latency.  Tracer Tokens help you
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Tips to improve performance when applying Snapshot in Transactional Replication

1) MaxBCPThreads (contributed by Sanjaya Padhi, Microsoft SQL Server Support) I found we can add in the below point to increase the perf of the snapshot application by the distribution agent by use of MaxBCPThreads parameter as mentioned in the article below.  Please note this does not apply when Snapshot created using default “concurrent” option.
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Links for Getting Started with Transactional Replication

Satesh Yele | Microsoft SQL Server Support Quick collection of links for getting started with Transactional Replication. Transactional Replication http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms165720(SQL.90).aspx How Transactional Replication Works http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms151706(SQL.90).aspx Considerations for Transactional Replication http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms151254(SQL.90).aspx Replication Security Best Practices http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms151227(SQL.90).aspx Implementing Replication http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms151847(SQL.90).aspx SQL Server Replication (How Do I) http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms166348(SQL.90).aspx Configuring Distribution http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms151860(SQL.90).aspx How to: Configure Distribution (SQL Server Management
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