Category: Inside Replication

SQL Server 2008/R2 Audit Triggers for Change Data Capture changes_tables table.

Share this PostSQL Server 2008/R2 Audit Triggers for Change Data Capture changes_tables table — — FILENAME: CDCchange_tablesAudit.SQL — — AUTHOR:  Chris Skorlinski — — DESCRIPTION: SQL Server 2008/R2 Audit Triggers for Change Data Capture changes_tables table. — This script is used to audit the activity in the changes_tables table created when —  you enable Change
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New Disaster Recovery option for Peer-2-Peer (P2P) Replication in SQL 2008

Share this PostProblem: Following a severe systems/replication failure, SQL 2005 requires database updates to be frozen until the peer is re-established. Peer-to-Peer Transactional Replication http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms151196(SQL.90).aspx Maintenance Considerations The following actions require the system to be quiesced (stopping activity on published tables at all nodes and ensuring that each node has received all changes from all
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Snapshot Files deleted when “@immediate_sync = N’true'” and “@retention = 0”.

Share this PostAs mentioned in previous post the @immediate_sync = N’true’ allows you to add a new Transactional Replication subscriber anytime during the Retention Period as both the Snapshot files on disk and the “cached” transactions stored in the distribution database will be available to bring a subscriber up-to-date with the Publisher. One small catch:
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