In the middle of a huge phased migration from SQL 2000 to SQL 2008 we noticed the SQL 2008 publisher\distributor was causing blocking when replicating data changes to the SQL 2000 subscriber. We discovered the SQL Server 2005\2008\2012 Distribution Agent was configured to replicate as native SQL commands instead of default parameterized stored procedures. This
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This is a follow up post to my article Using “Verbose history agent profile.” while troubleshooting Replication. Using SQL Server Management Studio you can set a default profile for all Replication Agents. In this walk through I’ll change ALL Merge Agents default to use the “Verbose History Agent Profile”. In SSMS, right click the Replication
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I recently encountered this error when setting up Transactional Replication via SQL scripts. Msg 14100, Level 16, State 1, Procedure sp_MSrepl_addsubscription, Line 533 Specify all articles when subscribing to a publication using concurrent snapshot processing. Looking at my create Publication script I see the default @sync_method = N’concurrent’ being set in sp_addpublication. Nothing I want
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We encounter a problem today with a Distribution Agent failing with “Row Not Found” when pushing an UPDATE to a Subscriber. Reaching the problem we discovered the Subscriber was created using a Backup\Restore from the Publisher and had Identity Columns. The Identity Columns had “Not For Replication” set to NO, which flags the Distribution Agent
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I came across a great posting by Laurentiu Cristofor [MSFT] called “SQL Server 2005: How to regenerate the same symmetric key in two different databases”. I modified his “column encryption”example slightly to include DecryptByKey and reposted it below. The sample wraps in blog posting but is readable after you paste it into SQL Server Management
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