Tag: Distributor

Unexplained Latency in the Distribution Agent using Named Pipe

Just wanted to give a heads up about a SQL Replication Distribution Agent Latency problem we observed today.  The Distribution Agent to 1 subscriber was only delivering about 500 cmds/sec while other subscribers were getting 4000 cmds/sec. We noticed the Distribution Agent was running under a different PacketSize, made that change, no noticeable improvement. While
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Published Database Transaction Log continues to Grow!

A customer recently noticed their Published database transaction log would continue to grow until they backed up the Distribution database. [crayon-6484581ccfb27376172383/] “… to clear out the Transaction Log file was to backup the Distribution Database System – this appeared to work and the stuck transaction was shifted onwards, as the transaction log file had grown
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Walkthrough setting up SQL Replication Distributor using TSQL commands

The scripts below and the video capture walkthrough setting up a Microsoft SQL Server Replication Distributor using SQL commands. As discussed in previous posting, the Distributor is a key role in Replication.  It serves as a “cache” holding transactions for Transactional Replication and history tracking for all types of Replication.  I’ve highlighted some of the
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