Category: Troubleshooting

“Replication Monitor could not insert the tracer token”

Share this PostI’m seeing an uptick in customers using combination of AlwaysOn and Transactional Replication. Some are configuring the Publisher for high-availability, and some are configuring the Subscriber with Read-Only Secondary to prevent contention from the Distribution Agent updates and “reporting” read queries. Once configured, Tracer Tokens are often used to monitor end-to-end Transactional Replication
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KB article 312292 How to enable replication agents for logging to output files in SQL Server

Share this PostWhile troubleshooting SQL Server Replication we often want to capture detail step-by-step execution of Replication Agent.  One technique is to configure the Agent to log its execution to a Text file.  This posting walks through a couple of different ways to accomplish this.  It is also covered in the KB article http://support.microsoft.com/?id=312292.  I’ll
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