Replication Distribution Agent often dies with the following log entry. At that hour little is ever going on so I am surprised that the error occurs.
Failed Job -> JobName: Instance1-DB1-Instance2-33, StepName: Run agent., Message: Timeout expired. NOTE: The step was retried the requested number of times (10) without succeeding. The step failed..
Any ideas where to start?
Thanks
HI,
We are having a problem with a distribution for a publication.
It is replicating email field and one of the values had a ' in it which is failing at destination.
Is there a way to get rid of this bad record from distribution agent cue?
thanks
I've just installed a replication between 2 NT4 servers with SQL 6.5. A task with a 'distribution' type, owner = repl_subscriber, has started on the subscriber side but crashes with an error code S0001 : "There is already an object named 'Customer' in the database". 'Customer' is one of the tables that I want to replicate. Why do I get this error? And how to correct it? Thanks.
View 1 Replies View RelatedHey everyone,
sorry for the lame questions, but:
1) I have a transactional replication service set up. However, whenever we select a new table or column within a table to replication to the subscribers, the changes never seem to get picked up unless we make an actual change within some of the other data. Any idea why this is? Even after I've reinitialized snapshots, the new changes don't want to proprogate to teh subscribers until data is actually changed.
2) where do I need to go to manually stop and restart a a distribution agent to force these changes to be proprogated without having to change any data within the tables?
Thanks
I seem to be having trouble with the distribution agent not doing what I want it to do. I have set up a few publications to run all the time but when I want to schedule a publication to run once a day this doesn't happen it defaults to run all the time.
Can the distrubition agent run some publications continusly and some publications scheduled?
Can anyone shed some light on this problem.
Please, i need some help with the replication i had configured.
I have two publications to the same subscriber, one with data filters and other not.
The one without data filters i have test manualy. But now after i have created the other one, the log reader says that '145 transactions with 347 commands' were delivered, but the distribution agents says that 'no replicated transactions are avaiable'.
I know that have many things to be replicated, but doesn´t work.
The Sql server agent is working on the distributor.
There is something that can be causing this error ?????
Please, if someone can help me i apologize
Thanks in regards
Sandra Lino
hi,
the distribution agent says that the process is running and waiting for response from the server .
i have replication set up for different locations.
only one location bothers me.
it runs for hours and it will not get complete for quite a few days.
once it is done i am missing the data for few days.
can you please tell to me how to make the distribution agent run faster with out much delays.
thank you,
Maybe I'm just totally not getting it, but can someone tell me how to stop/start the distribution agent? The Books Online document - "How to: Start and Stop a Replication Agent (SQL Server Management Studio)" - shows how to stop/start the Snapshot Agent, Log Reader Agent and Queue Reader Agent, but not the Distribution Agent. Is it that stopping one of these agents in turn stops the Distribution Agent. I am trying to work through how to add an article to a peer-to-peer topology and need to stop the agent as part of that.
Thanks,
Larry
Can anyone help me on this??
I have a transactional replication going on from Server A to server B (Sql Server 2005)
The replication was working well till yesterday..
But now, the replicated transactions are not getting applied at the subscriber. When I see the Log reader agent, its working fine...delivering the transactions to the distributor. When I see the replication monitor status ..it says 'delivering replicated transactions'...however the number of undistriuted transactions is very high..its getting bigger and bigger..not decreasing...I dont see any errors..So my guess is the distribution agent is not working eventhough its says 'delivering replicated transactions'..Other thing is if i see the replication monitor it says status excellent...and latency as 00 ..but i dont see the latest data at the subscriber..the subscriber is way behind the publisher..
can anyone help me on this?? how do i resolve this problem??? I stopped the distribution agent and again started it..but it dint help...what should i do??
thanks
I have setup a replication and after 24 hours this are the error messages I have got:Last action; The database 'supersite' on server 'solomon' does not exist. Full error message: Could not locate entry in sysdatabases for database 'superiste'. No entry found with that name.Make sure that the name is entered correctly. Can anyone out there help me out?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI seem to have an orphaned Distribution Agent. There is no associated Publication and the agent is sending errors. The errors would be legitimate if only I had an associated publication. I also do not have an associated Snapshot Agent.
How can I get rid of this bogus agent? I already deleted the associated job and rebooted SQL and SQLAgent but it still persists.
Any help would be appreciated.
Colleen
I have a replication Push Subscription configured that works most of the time but I get occasional errors satating that "The process could not connect to the Subscripber 'xxxx'". The details are
Login failed for user '(null)'. Reason: Not associated with a trusted SQL Server connection.
(Source: PYRRXNDAL341WIN (Data source); Error number: 18452)
This happens randomly and when it does fail, I can either what for the next occurence in the schedule or I can start the agent manually and it completes successfully. I can also ping the other box when it happens. I've looked at the event logs and don't see anything going on around the times the distribution agent is having the problems.
Any suggestions on where to start looking for more detail?
I have been seeing this issue for several weeks now. The distribution agent will become idle even though there is activity occurring within the replicated database. If I manually start the distribution agent, it will begin retrieving the transactions. I thought that this might be due to inactivity but I have modified the inactivity threshold and I am not receiving an actual inactive agent warning. There are no warnings -- it simply sits there and does not resume sending transactions.
Any thoughts? This is a transactional replication with a distribution agent that is run at the subscriber.
Thanks,
MV
Hi,For some magical reason, my database replication has suddenly stoppedworking. I modified the publication but the Distribution agent willnot run; the snapshot does not get applied to the subscriber, andchanges made at the publisher do not get replicated.My configuration is: Transactional Replication with a 'Pull'Subscription. The Subscriber is Updateable with Immediate UpdatesOnly. All created via the SQL Server Enterprise Manager. Both thePublisher and Subscriber are on the same server. I'm running SQLServer 2000 (8.00.760 SP3), on Windows 2000 Server (5.0 (2195)).I manually run the snapshop agent. It runs fine with the status'Succeeded' and the Last Action is 'A Snapshot of X article(s) wasgenerated'.When I look at the distribution agent, things start to get a bitconfusing in ( <SERVERNAME>/Replication Monitor/ Publishers/<SERVERNAME?>/ Publication/ Subscription), the status staysconstantly at 'Never Started'. All other columns are either blank or0. When I right click over the subscription, both Start Synchronisingand Stop Synchronising are NOT greyed out. If I click on either StartSynchronising or Stop Synchronising (absolutely) nothing happens(except the mouse turns 'busy' for a fraction of a second). There areno error messages.I added -output c:sqlout.txt -outputverboselevel 3 to thedistribution agent command. C:sqlout.txt did not get created.It worked fine up to a couple of days ago. I'm not sure exactly whatcaused the problem, as I made a few changes at the same time. Thechanges included: adding a new transactional publication, adding morearticles to an existing transaction publication, and adding a mergepublication. I've tried to go back to the set up before I made thechanges, even disabling replication and starting again from scratch.Still the problem persists.The owner of the distribution agent has dbo permissions in both thepublishing and subscribing database. Under 'Publisher and DistributorProperties' I've set the 'Replication Agent Connection to Publisher'and 'Agent Connection to the Subscriber' both to Use SQL ServerAuthentication, both with the same account that has dbo permissions inboth publishing and subscribing database.Has anybody come across this problem before? Can anybody make anysuggestions? Thanks in advance for your help.RegardsDamian HelmeIS ManagerINTEC Engineering (UK) Ltd.
View 1 Replies View RelatedHi,
I am trying implement replication and having problem when creating push subscription to an existing transactional replication publication.
The distribution agent is failing to run its job with the error:
Agent message code 14260. You do not have sufficient permission to run this command. Contact your system administrator.
I followed the http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms151868.aspx article instructions when I set the distribution agent properties
What did I miss?
The following is the step error message:
Date 1/12/2007 2:30:01 PM
Log Job History (105342-DB3PROD-MOMA-ArchivedTransactions-105337-DEV2-15)
Step ID 2
Server 105342-DB3PROD
Job Name 105342-DB3PROD-MOMA-ArchivedTransactions-105337-DEV2-15
Step Name Run agent.
Duration 00:00:00
Sql Severity 0
Sql Message ID 0
Operator Emailed
Operator Net sent
Operator Paged
Retries Attempted 0
Message
2007-01-12 19:30:01.258 Microsoft SQL Server Replication Agent: distrib
2007-01-12 19:30:01.258
2007-01-12 19:30:01.258 The timestamps prepended to the output lines are expressed in terms of UTC time.
2007-01-12 19:30:01.258 User-specified agent parameter values:
-Subscriber 105337-DEV2
-SubscriberDB MOMA
-Publisher 105342-DB3PROD
-Distributor 105342-DB3PROD
-DistributorSecurityMode 1
-Publication ArchivedTransactions
-PublisherDB MOMA
-XJOBID 0x65C41EBC553D96439BAF69E4DC3CC823
-XJOBNAME 105342-DB3PROD-MOMA-ArchivedTransactions-105337-DEV2-15
-XSTEPID 2
-XSUBSYSTEM Distribution
-XSERVER 105342-DB3PROD
-XCMDLINE 0
-XCancelEventHandle 00000000000006E8
2007-01-12 19:30:01.258 Startup Delay: 214 (msecs)
2007-01-12 19:30:01.477 Connecting to Distributor '105342-DB3PROD'
2007-01-12 19:30:01.618 Agent message code 14260. You do not have sufficient permission to run this command. Contact your system administrator.
Hi There
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We have 32 individual publications setup on SQL 2000 and have 32 distribution agent running against it. I think each distribution agent opens a process called distrib.exe in Windows task Mgr.
Problem I'm having is that these 32 distribution agents are taking up fair amount of memory 1/2 gig and each process seem to be ever increasing in memory usage so I suspect a memory leak?
Is there something I can do to fix this problem? I don't want to upgrade memory as we already have over 1 1/2 gigs on this machine and it would not be feasible if we have a memory leak.
thanks!
Hello!
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View 1 Replies View RelatedWe have quite a lot of Transactional replication, and over the past few weeks it had become quite slow. I spent the last few days trying to resolve the problem and found that a Push subscription was delivering transactions at about 50/sec and a Pull subscription was delivering at around 700/sec.
This test was run on the Same publication, same subscriber so hardware and links are all the same, the only difference was the type of subscription. I've since changed a few of our subscriptions for the larger publications and have found they run quicker than previously.
Has anyone else seen this behavour and is there a valid reason why this would occur. The distributor and subscriber are both running SQL2005 SP1 and the publisher is SQL2000 SP4.
If anyone could shed some light on this it would be appreciated.
I've been using replication for a long while now but have never come across this error. It's a basic transactional replication from ServerA to ServerB, where ServerA is also the distributor. Everything had been running fine on it until yesterday, when this error started popping up and no further transactions could be delivered.
After some quick googling I was able to determine that the distribution agent account needed write access to C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL Server100Com. According to the MSFT article it's because the distribution agent is running under a non-default profile. I didn't change this. However, what I did change around the time that these errors started occurring was the server's Replication Max Test Size setting. It would be far too coincidental for this to not be the cause, but what I don't understand is *why* that would have changed it.
how do I change this? It is definitely not preferable to create temp files in this directory in our environment.
Hi,
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We have replication setup on a sql server 2000. We encountered issue that the distribution agent goes down (distrib.exe stop running) in the event of network connection broken. We would like to know:
is this the expected result that the distribution agent will go down in the event of communication failure between the distribution server and subscriber server?
if not, is there a way to programmatically control and restart the agent?
Is there any sp in SQL server which can monitor the replication communication error message?
is there any sp in SQL server which can be run to restart the agent?
For the best practice, what do you think we can do to achieve an €˜event-driven€™ kind of mechanism so when an communication breaks, the agent can be restarted by the triggered event (or at least a simple way to automatically restart)?
Thanks
Bill
I'm getting this, after upgrading from 2000 to 2005.Replication-Replication Distribution Subsystem: agent (null) failed.The subscription to publication '(null)' has expired or does notexist.The only suggestions I've seen are to dump all subscriptions. Sincewe have several dozen publications to several servers, is there adecent way to script it all out, if that's the only suggestion?Thanks in advance.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI've just created a Maintenance Plan with Maintenance Plan Wizard, after I hit the Finish button and the SQL Server Management Studio start executing the wizard, it said something has conflict with the new maintenance wizard. Next thing I know, there's this DB Backup agent in SQL Agent Job (in SQL Server Management Studio); and I can't delete it although I'm able to disable it.
Can someone help? Here's the detail of the error message I received every time I tried to delete the job agent:
Drop failed for Job 'DB Backup'. (Microsoft.sqlServer.Smo)
Additional information:
- An exception occured while executing a Transact-SQL statement or batch.
(Microsoft.SqlServer.ConnectionInfo)
- The DELETE statement conflicted with the REFERENCE constraint
"FK_subplan_job_id". The conflict occurred in database "msdb" ,table
"dbo.sysmainplan_subplans", column "job_id".
The statement has been terminated. (Microsoft.SQL Server, error:547)
Thanks!
Hello,
We are consistently getting the error message below on our subscribers that have blob images. Is there a way to increase a setting to avoid SQL to throw this error, or another suggestion? Thanks in advance.
John
Error messages:
The replication agent has not logged a progress message in 10 minutes. This might indicate an unresponsive agent or high system activity. Verify that records are being replicated to the destination and that connections to the Subscriber, Publisher, and Distributor are still active.
18 -BcpBatchSize 100000
18 -ChangesPerHistory 100
18 -DestThreads 2
18 -DownloadGenerationsPerBatch 5
18 -DownloadReadChangesPerBatch 100
18 -DownloadWriteChangesPerBatch 100
18 -FastRowCount 1
18 -HistoryVerboseLevel 3
18 -KeepAliveMessageInterval 300
18 -LoginTimeout 15
18 -MaxBcpThreads 2
18 -MaxDownloadChanges 0
18 -MaxUploadChanges 0
18 -MetadataRetentionCleanup 1
18 -NumDeadlockRetries 5
18 -PollingInterval 60
18 -QueryTimeout 400
18 -SrcThreads 2
18 -StartQueueTimeout 0
18 -UploadGenerationsPerBatch 3
18 -UploadReadChangesPerBatch 100
18 -UploadWriteChangesPerBatch 100
18 -Validate 0
18 -ValidateInterval 60
Due to the memory leak issue with respect to replicating blobbed images we have changed UploadGenerationsPerBatch to = 3.
Hello,
i use a transactional replication to load my datawarehouse DB everynight.
This works fine for the first repliaction but on the second i get the error "Agent message code 21074 the subscriptions need to be reinitialized..." and i have to reinitialize with new snapshots.
I can't see why this happen.
Somebody got an idee ?
Thanks for your help and best regards
On SQL Server 2005 SP2 for Publisher and Distributor on the same instance, my old snapshots are not being cleaned up.
The following error is in the agent history:
Executed as user: DomainMyUser. Could not remove directory '\vmsql01ReplDatauncPublication_TRANSACTIONAL20070702104416'. Check the security context of xp_cmdshell and close other processes that may be accessing the directory. [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error 20015). The step failed.
xp_cmdshell is enabled and I can run commands like :
exec master.dbo.xp_cmdshell ' md c:TestFolder'
The permissions to the snapshot share and file system are that DomainMyUser has full control.
I have logged into the machine as this user and can remove snapshots so it does not seem to be a permission issue.
On other machines I do not get any errors but the snapshot folder still is not cleaned up.
Any suggestion as to what the problem could be?
Thanks,
Amy
I'm using SQL with Access as a front end.
When the forth user tries to access the same data I get an ODBC connection failed error.
I'm new to SQL and have no idea what to do about this.
Please help!!!!
-Seth
I have log shipping setup at a client site (it is their network). Log shipping runs fine until midnight, and then stops processing files. What I notice on the primary server (where the files are backed up to), all the files after midnight are set to A attribute, none of the files before midnight have this. The short of it it does not process these files and log shipping dies and has to be rebuilt. Any network admins have any ideas (I did have them stop backing up these files with their backup software) still dies
View 3 Replies View RelatedWhen processing my very large cube, after 6 hours, the service dies and the ASCMD returns an error saying it can't find the server / service. The rest of the server is fine and I just have to restart the Service. But the ASCMD keeps killing the service. Can anyone offer some ideas of when I should be looking?
Windows Server 2003 SP1
4GB RAM
4 CPU
Many thanks in advance,
Richard.
Hello all.I have quite disturbing situation where I am not happy about the way how SQLhandles the query. Situation is related to using user function in INNER JOINselect. Although the problem occured in more complex situation the query canbe simplified to following example with same results:There is an user function, that can be as simple as:FUNCTION IsItSo (@text1 nvarchar(255), @text2 nvarchar(255))RETURNS integerBEGINif isnull(@text1,'')=isnull(@text2,'')return 1elsereturn 0return 0ENDIt can be any function returning integer, this is just for example.Then there is a query as simple as that:SELECT person, formula FROM(SELECTa.person, v.code AS formulaFROM rows1 AS aINNER JOIN rows2 AS v ON a.type=v.typeAND dbo.IsItSo(a.type,v.type)=1)as formulastables rows1 and rows2 can contain as little as two columns for thisexample - rows1 have [person] and [type], rows2 [code] and [type]. Allcolumns are of nvarchar type.So the AND clause after INNER JOIN is an obvious mistake. That is not theproblem, problem is how SQL reacts. On SQL 2000 SP4 the result for runningthe query is following error:Server: Msg 913, Level 16, State 8, Line 1Could not find database ID 101. Database may not be activated yet or may bein transition.On SQL 2000 SP3 the result is even more dramatic - SQL service will consume100% of all available processors and become unresponsive. Only solution isto restart either SQL service or the server.My question is if this self-destructive behavior of SQL server can beprevented by some configuration parameters or patches. I am a bit annoyed bythe fact that developer can kill the server by little bit of poorprogramming that is syntactically acceptable for server.One more curious bit - the section of the query located between parenthesiscan be run separately without any ill effects and get actual meaningfulresults:SELECTa.person, v.code AS formulaFROM rows1 AS aINNER JOIN rows2 v ON a.type=v.typeAND dbo.IsItSo(a.type,v.type)=1
View 3 Replies View RelatedHello all,
I'm trying to install "SQL Server 2005 Express Edition SP2".
I downloaded "SQLEXPR32.EXE" (38,220,656 bytes) from the Microsoft site.
At the beginning of the setup the installation program scans my system -- no problems or warnings. Everything looks fine.
During installation I uncheck, "Hide advanced configuration options" simply because I want to change the default instance name. I make no other changes to the default installation.
The installation starts up but when it tries to install the "SQL Native Client" I get the following error dialog message:
"An installation package for the product Microsoft SQL Server Native Client cannot be found. Try the installation again using a valid copy of the installation package 'sqlncli.msi'."
That's an odd message to receive since I am *not* even trying to install the SQL Native Client.
Does anyone have an idea of what might be causing this to happen. I've install SSE many times in the past with no problems.
Thanks