Are the queries to pull data from the Merge Subscribe taking longer then when executed on the Publisher? Looks like it is time to review the index structure for these tables. We encountered an unusual problem in SQL 2005/2008 where the indexes didn’t get created on the Subscriber when the Snapshot was pushed by the
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Amit Banerjee | Microsoft SQL Server Support TSQL Code: MS_MergeAgentStatistics.sql script located on SkyDrive MergePerformance or TechNet Code Share I have sometimes found the need to track the performance of the Merge Agents configured on the server without having to dig through the Replication Monitor or through the Merge Agent job history outputs. So, here
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Contributed by: Karol Korasadowicz Depending on type of data being replicated and network throughput adjusting the PacketSize parameter for the Distribution Agent may increase your overall Transactional Replication performance. -PacketSize packet_size Is the packet size, in bytes. The default is 4096 (bytes). http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms147328.aspx To see which setting has most impact, create test scenario which inserts/updates
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I’m posting a collection of SQL Server 2008 Merge Replication Best Practices. The material below includes text from SQL Books Online, other white papers, KB articles, web postings, and little from experience I gained working with SQL Replication for almost 15 years. The “best practices” below are in no particular order. My objective was to
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Transactional Replication Conversations When troubleshooting Transactional Replication performance break down the flow of data into 4 simultaneous conversation. Examine performance of each conversation. This will help verify where the bottleneck investigation should begin. 1) LogReader Reader thread is reading the Transaction Log via stored procedure sp_replcmds, a wrapper for xp_replcmds. It scans the transaction log
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