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Replication Monitor is an useful tool that gives information about publisher view of all replication activity including status information for publications and subscriptions. When you load the replication monitor by default it will display warnings only for uninitialized subscriptions, you need to enable warnings for other conditions ...

Ok, replication concepts and technology has been continuing since the olden days (version 70) within SQL Server journey. To talk about new features within SQLServer 2008 comapring to the previous versions, FILESTREAM where much of data is created every day such as documents, images and videos that needs a structured storage for better performance ...

In case you have many snapshots generated within your Replication setup and having troubles in finding what kind of scheduled job is running during the time of snapshot publication. By default you coudl take help of system catalog MSsnapshot_agents and further query against sys.sysjobs or sys.sysjobsteps, not an easy to find out what is ...

Whenever the replication is configured, a set of agent profiles is installed on the Distributor, thsi profile will have a set of parameters that are used each time an agent runs. In addition to this the replication provides a default profile for each agent and additional predefined profiles for the Log Reader Agent, Distribution Agent, ...

A newbie set of question that how to know the whether the current server is distributor or publisher? Any pre-defined script to know any other publishers that are using as Distributor? Well, there are such pre-defined scripts and stored procedures are availble within the SQL Server documentation such as ...

One of the client referred about the  error during the execution of Upgrade Advisor: Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the operation or the server is not responding.    Initial thoughts lead to checking the SQL Server timeout setting which has been left with default value 0, also further ...

Here we are going to highlight the majority of tasks you need to perform whenever user complains or you observe about SQL Server Replication performance is affected, adversly. For any performance tuning issues there will be other factors involved including SQL Server, such as in replication the performance can be measured along the ...

Replication plays important role within the data-driven events in an Enterprise, vital to the sales-work force type of management. DBAs will always havea primary focus in providing protection for the data assets stored in SQL Server. Protection that covers the security and data recoverability is also equally important, during this process ...

When you have problems with SQL Server replication where the transactional replication is common case in setting up, eventually you will have problems when the data is growing up and any sudden changes in the ETL will also have affect on replication process. In this case I would suggest in referring to links ...

Got a question via email asking to configure Transactional Replication between two servers with in SQL Server 2005. By all means I would like to refer this KBA http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321822 for replication between HOW TO: Replicate Between Computers Running SQL Server in Non-Trusted Domains or Across the Internet. Also the ...