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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A customer called today about an unexplained slowness in SQL Server 2008 on Windows 2008 R2. All SQL data looked great, no blocking, no obvious IO bottlenecks, just overall slow performance. 976700 An application stops responding, experiences low performance, or experiences high privileged CPU usage if many large I/O operations are performed in Windows 7
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Today someone asked me how to “roll their own” SQL Replication Monitor to keep an eye on the health of SQL Server Replication. You’ve seen from my previous post I usually use a TracerToken job to monitor SQL Transactional Replication and query against MSmerge_sessions table for Merge Replication. However, you can also create your own
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The Microsoft SQL Server Support team uses various scripts to collect Replication and Performance data from customer’s SQL Servers. These scripts extract data into either text files or into temporary databases which are then backed up and sent to Microsoft SQL Engineer for analysis. Below are links to some of these common data collection scripts.
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