If you need to reset your Replication topology you can quickly rebuild subscribers using the “no initialize” also called “Replication Support Only (RSO)”. WARNING: These steps are designed to remove ALL of your Replication configuration and settings, recreating with new metadata tables. The RSO option skips the Snapshot data reinitialization phase. It only pushed down new
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I thought it would be helpful to post a Replication Distribution Agent troubleshooting case to show more about replication components and troubleshooting approaches. Problem: SQL Server Distribution Agent reported “Failed” in Replication Monitor. To capture text of the message we added the following parameters to the Distribution Agent job and restarted the job. The –output
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Here is an interesting support call where Change Data Capture (CDC) log scan job was failing with error below. Error Executed as user: domain\svc_account. Log Scan process failed in processing log records. Refer to previous errors in the current session to identify the cause and correct any associated problems. [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error 22859) The statement
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Sateesh Yele | Microsoft SQL Server Support How to initialize the subscriber from backup Create the publication using user interface Replication Wizard. Under subscription options for the publication, set “allow initialization from backup files” to true Create a new full backup of the publisher database. If you have existing full backup of the publisher database,
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When using compressed “VarDecimal Storage Format Enabled” on Transactional or Merge published tables you’ll discover this setting is not applied to subscribers leading to table bloating. Database Properties Table Properties Try This: Publish table with varDecimal USE [AdventureWorks2017] GO CREATE TABLE [dbo].[DecZero]( [ID] [bigint] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT FOR REPLICATION NOT NULL, [F1] [decimal](23, 2) NOT NULL,
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