Year: 2017

CDC functionality may break after upgrading to the latest CU for SQL Server 2012, 2014 and 2016

This problem was brought to our attention recently by one of our customers. CDC LogScan job fails, possible Error Message: Log Scan process failed in processing log records. Operand type clash: int is incompatible with uniqueidentifier Operand type clash: int is incompatible with datetime The Log-Scan Process failed to construct a replicated command from log
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Transaction Log won’t truncate when using Snapshot Replication to Azure SQLDB

Chris SkorlinskiMicrosoft SQL Server Escalation Services Customer encountered transaction log growth for a Published SQL Server 2016 database while nightly refreshing Azure SQLDB. We discovered the default publication setting “replicate_dll” was still enabled. SELECT [description],[name],[replicate_ddl] FROM <your published database>.[dbo].[syspublications] description name replicate_ddl —————————————————— ———- ————- Snapshot publication of database ‘AdventureWorks2014’ Customers 1 (1 row(s) affected)
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Clarification on MSDN Initialize a Transactional Subscription from a Backup

I hope this blog posting will provide some clarification into the MSDN article providing steps on how to initialize a transactional subscription from a backup. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms147834.aspx First I want to clarify the @backupdevicename parameter. The article reads like the “DISK = “should be included in the parameter, it should not. For a physical device, specify
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