José Moreira Neto | Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Services Particularities of Merge Anonymous Subscribers In Merge Replication, anonymous subscriptions are required if you want to create a subscription without registering the subscription at the Publisher. This is necessary for cases in which you cannot establish a SQL Server connection to the Publisher during subscription configuration.
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Eric Lucht | Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Services Logging Options When the Merge subsystem is initialized, agent logging is automatically enabled using default values. The Agent will begin logging in the replmerg.log being created in the 100\COM (90\COM for SQL 2005) folder. This blog posting covers registry keys used to override the logging level of
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Amit Banerjee | Microsoft SQL Server Support TSQL Code: MS_MergeAgentStatistics.sql script located on SkyDrive MergePerformance or TechNet Code Share I have sometimes found the need to track the performance of the Merge Agents configured on the server without having to dig through the Replication Monitor or through the Merge Agent job history outputs. So, here
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Sateesh Yele | Microsoft SQL Server Support I would like to share information about an interesting Replication issue I recently worked. Customer was getting unusual error messages during synchronization. Symptom: Merge agent is failing with the following error message when validating large tables with checksum. The merge process was unable to perform data validation on
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Sateesh Yele | Microsoft SQL Server Support Peer-2-Peer Replication Wizard provides no options to enable table partition switching. There are 2 ways to enable this feature. 1) create the publication on ALL the peers using TSQL sp_addpublication 2) create the subscriptions using the user interface — or — 1) create the publication using the Replication
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