High Level Transactional Replication Process Flow

High Level Transactional Replication Process Flow I’ve posted this flow before on my BLOG but I wanted to include the stored procedure calls used by Transactional Replication. While troubleshooting Replication performance/latency we’ll try and identify which stored procedure executing from which Replication Agent has the highest IO or highest CPU usage. These usually are a
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What is a “virtual” Subscription in Transactional Replication

The SQL Replication system table syssubscriptions contains one row per published article per subscriber.  Notice the “virtual” subscriber. With the immediate_sync property is set to true, “virtual” subscriptions are created as placeholders for retaining generated snapshot (transactions). These “virtual” subscriptions are activated just like normal subscriptions by the Snapshot agent and are used to track
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