I recently needed to move a Transactional Replicated table to a new File Group. There are a couple of documented Schema changes that can break Replication. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms151870(SQL.90).aspx However, I found most problems are solved if I first ensure all data between all peers/subscribers is synched, “no replicated transactions”, before making schema change, then sync the
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Sateesh Yele | Microsoft SQL Server Support Below is a list of self-help resources or this scenario. These resources are used by Microsoft SQL Replication Support Engineers during an Advisory Services engagement or while troubleshooting Web Synchronization problems. We hope you too find these helpful. Web Synchronization for Merge Replication http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms151763.aspx Topologies for
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José Moreira Neto Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Engineer Certain table reindex operations, like online reindex or reindex operation while database is running in full recovery model, will create large amounts of transaction log records in the database transaction logs. This may or may not generate an actual increase in the physical size or the transaction
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Yes, post mostly Replication or High Availability topics, but I found this interesting enough to share on my ReplTalk blog. These are the troubleshooting and resolution we used to help a customer explore faster ways to update a 100 million row table. Problem Description Customer was running UPDATE query affecting 100 million rows. This query
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Replicate Execution of Stored Procedure and CDC: With Transactional Replication you can replicatethe execution of the Stored Procedure like this: This has several advantages as discussed in this article: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms152754.aspx . When you enable Change Data Capture (CDC) at the Database level, replication of the stored procedure execution will NOT work. This is By Design.
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