In the recent past, we have seen questions on the strategy/steps on upgrading a replication topology especially from customers using SQL Server 2008/2008 R2 or running SQL Server on Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2. We have outlined the most common topologies for replication and the possible upgrade paths for all releases from SQL Server
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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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Chris SkorlinskiMicrosoft SQL Server Escalation Services If you’re familiar with Microsoft SQL Server Replication technology you already know each Replication Agent has various parameters or knobs you can set via Agent Profile or SQL Agent job parameter. This series of posts provide insight into tuning Replication performance using these knobs. Following the 80-20 rule, 80%
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I had need other day to STOP and START all Distribution Push Agent. Using the syssubscriptions and syspublications I can easily build list of SQL commands to either stop or start all the Distribution Push Agents. With output to text, I can copy and execute from SQL Agent Job, or directly in SQL Management Studio
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Chris Skorlinski, Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Services I came across this forgotten but very handy script from my friends Suhas and Gaurav to display your Replication topology. The output below is from SQL 2016 sample publications using AdventureWorksLT. https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Display-Replication-b15e730c ============================================================= REPLICATION TOPOLOGY ============================================================= SELECT THE PUBLICATION-SUBSCRIPTION PAIR FOR SCOPING THE CASE ============================================================= SQL2016
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