Replication: Unable to Synchronize subscribers via Web Synchronization

reposting from Claudia Silva Microsoft SQL Escalation Services United Kingdom http://blogs.technet.com/b/claudia_silva/ Problem: The upload message to be sent to Publisher ‘XXX’ is being generated The merge process is using Exchange ID ‘XXXXX’ for this web synchronization session. No data needed to be merged. Request message generated, now making it ready for upload. Upload request size
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REPLICATION: My distribution agent generates a dump when replicating with my Oracle Subscriber

reposting from Claudia Silva Microsoft SQL Escalation Services United Kingdom http://blogs.technet.com/b/claudia_silva/ PROBLEM: I have a SQL Server 2005 replicating with an Oracle 11 subscriber. After installing the OLEDB driver for Oracle 11, a minidump is created every time the distributor tries to connect to Oracle: Distrib.exe crashes with STACK_OVERFLOW exception. The issue occurs while initializing
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How to reference a Folder as a Drive Letter

While assisting a customer with a SQL 2000 Replication configuration on Windows 2003 we need to reference the \ReplData folder as a Driver Letter.  With help of Rick Rieser and Ryan Mangipano from Microsoft Windows Support team we had a simple elegant solution; Windows subst command. — Example below creates an alias V: drive to
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Update Statistics fails with Error Number:–1073548784 “Could not allocate space for object ‘dbo.SORT”

Error Number: -1073548784 Executing the query “UPDATE STATISTICS [dbo].[***********] WITH FULLSCAN ” failed with the following error: “Could not allocate space for object ‘dbo.SORT temporary run storage: 142101814116352’ in database ‘tempdb’ because the ‘PRIMARY’ filegroup is full. Create disk space by deleting unneeded files, dropping objects in the filegroup, adding additional files to the filegroup,
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