Distribution Database For Replication
Mar 9, 1999
When setting up Replication in v. 6.5, a 'distribution' database is created, containing these tables:
MSjobs
MSjob_commands
MSjob_subscriptions
MSsubscriber_info
MSsubscriber_jobs
MSsubscriber_status
However, they cannot be accessed via the SQL Server Enterprise Manager interface like tables in other databases, at least I can't get to them. Is this a problem or a feature? I can query them to get their contents, but I'm wondering if there might be something wrong with my installation of SQL Server.
Any knowledge shared would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Karl Simanonok
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Feb 5, 2004
Hello,
We are setting up Merge replication and size of the database is
85 GB. How much disk size is feasible to keep for distribution Database.
Is there any % basis (SIZE) for Distribution DB according to the size of the database?
Is it feasible to keep seperate server for Distribution Server or keeping
Publisher and distributor on same same.
Can any one help me!
Thanks!
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Jul 14, 2015
I have transnational replication setup on two environments, on one server distribution database is tiny, but on the second server the distribution database is 5 times bigger, and taking up lot of space, both environments have almost same size of data.
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Oct 30, 2014
I just finished installing SQL Server 2012 with the SQL Server Replication feature component checked. On configuring transaction replication, i notice the distribution database wasn't there. I ran the below query
EXEC sp_get_distributor And the value for distribution_db_installed is 0 as shown below
installed distribution server distribution db installed is distribution publisher has remote distribution publisher
0NULL000
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Jun 15, 2007
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.
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May 31, 2001
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.
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May 3, 2000
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
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Aug 25, 2004
What happens when Distributor Server goes down in Transactional
Replication, no corruption (power , hardware failure)??
Thanks,
John
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Dec 5, 2006
Hi all replication experts...
I have created transactional replication on my servers (production server and backup server) and created pull subscription at the backup server. On my production server that also is a distributor and publisher there exist two agents, Snapshot agent and Log reader in the Publishers folder under replication Monitor.
There are also another agent with the backup server name and database name: BackServ:DBName having the type Pull and 'No replicated transactions are available' as Last Action. My question is: What is this? Must it be there?
Grateful for answers
Best,
/M
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May 17, 2006
Hi
I use Sql Server 2000 with Service pack and transactional replication for transfering data between Servers and for comunication between Servers i use Dialup but it is a little Slow line.
Ihave a table that need transfer about 4700 records. I update this table and distributer Agent starts. at the Same time Icontrol Transfering by this Select in destination query Analiser:
Select Count(*) from TableName with (nolock)
it counts until about 3700 and retry again from 1 and so on agin..
Please gide me how can i overcome this problem
thank you for kindness
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Feb 1, 2001
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?
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Dec 9, 2002
I 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
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Aug 21, 2006
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
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Mar 6, 2007
Somebody now what is the correct process to move the Distribution BD to another Disk with out affect the defined replication
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Jul 20, 2005
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.
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Mar 8, 2000
I have set up replication on two SQL Servers (6.5), SP5a, on NT 4.0 (SP3). The Distribution Task on the Publisher is failing with the following error:
08001[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][dbnmpntw]Specified SQL Server not found.
I am using standard security in a workgroup environment. I have my trusted connection setup and I am using named pipes. I had this process working on our test servers but when I tried to implement it into production I received the above message. Please give me some ideas or things to try. What source can I use to look up the 08001 error?
Thanks, Kevin
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Nov 9, 1999
I am now getting the following error:
Replication-Distribution: Task 'CAServer_Page_VAServer_InPage' failed. 3700[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server] Login Failed - User: Reason: Not associated with a trusted SQL Server connection.
I checked under the SQL Security Manager, View, SA Privilege and my sqlexecutivent login is set up as:
CAServersqlexecutivent sa
Thanks in advance for any tips you can give me with this. Both servers are set up in a workgroup. We are not using Domains.
Also, should my table already exist on the Subscribing Server?
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Jun 5, 2006
We are attempting to rollout a name and address system to 10,000 users who will use an application connected to an MSDE database.
We are using transactional replication to distribute data updates to them. Clients are connecting via the On-Idle feature of Synchronization Manager to grab transactions.
Server spec:
Network card: 1GB
Processors: 2* Xeon 3.2Ghz
Server spec: DL380 2Gb memory
Concurrent connections set to: 600
Disc: RAID 10 with 6400 controller
We are not using hyper-threading.
So far we have rolled the system out to 3500 subscribers, 500 per day.
Each day a subsciber will receive at least 400 transactions and 5000 commands.
Latency is 6 seconds, delivery rate 180 commands per second at less busy times.
Latency is 14 seconds, delivery rate 127 commands a second at busy times.
I have seen it get as slow as 0.04 commands a seconds at busy times.
The server becomes incredibly slow when there are more than 50 concurrent connections.
We are seeing 100 CPU for most of the day as clients connect to the distributor at various times. Lunchtime is particularly busy when people go to lunch, leaving their machines idle. We see lots of "time-outs" and "unable to connect to distributor" messages on the replication monitor during peak times.
What can we do to improve the performance of the distribution server?
Are we being over-ambitious by selection SQL Replication for this scenario?
Thank you for any help!
Best wishes
Julian
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Mar 8, 2000
I will try the mixed security tomorrow. I have in the mean time discovered that I am not able to use the odbcping.exe utility successfully. It returns the same 08001 error message (Specified SQL Server not found). Does this means that the problem is within ODBC? What are somethings that I can try?
Thanks, Kevin
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You need mixed security, also check password of the sql service account on nt.
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Kevin G. at 3/8/00 3:21:47 PM
I have set up replication on two SQL Servers (6.5), SP5a, on NT 4.0 (SP3). The Distribution Task on the Publisher is failing with the following error:
08001[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][dbnmpntw]Specified SQL Server not found.
I am using standard security in a workgroup environment. I have my trusted connection setup and I am using named pipes. I had this process working on our test servers but when I tried to implement it into production I received the above message. Please give me some ideas or things to try. What source can I use to look up the 08001 error?
Thanks, Kevin
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Apr 11, 2007
Recently we disabled the transactional replication on a prodution database(data size:300GB) , two weeks later we were aware of the transaction log of that db almost reached the limitation (70GB).I investigated the issues and found:
1. open transactions pending for distribution:
DBCC opentran('xxxx')
Replicated Transaction Information:
Oldest distributed LSN : (0:0:0)
Oldest non-distributed LSN : (323830:7083:1)
DBCC execution completed. If DBCC printed error messages, contact your system administrator.
2. exec sp_replcounters, got over 240,000 replicated_transactions, which caused the tran log extremely large.
The transactional replication has been disabled on this server, there are no publication, distribution DBs any longer, all replication-related agents are also gone, why did this still happen???
3. use sp_repldone manaully reset those 240,000 transactions to distributed, check opentran, it was fine for a while. The tran log file was freed up 99% after that.
4. check open transactions and run sp_replcounters today, found the over 60000 transactions again on the db.
Did anybody experience the same issue and knows how to fix this issue and stop this happening ?
Many Thanks,
Henry
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Jul 6, 2007
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
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Jan 25, 1999
Hi,
I'm new to working with replication & I'm just starting to test some implementations. We're still using the beta, v7.00.517. and... basically nothing works, I can't even open any of the replication management features in Enterprise Manager. As soon as I select any item from the replication menu I get:
Error 208: [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Invalid object name 'msdb.dbo.MSdistributiondbs'
It's either:
A: a bug, B: something screwed up in my system databases, or C: I'm missing something really obvious.
Any insight would be much appreciated.
Gordo
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May 2, 2000
i would like to drop a distribution database after disabling both susbscriber and publisher .but i get a message saying distribution database is still in use .and as far as i can tell its there is no one using it .also stopped sql agent but no luck . and when i do select @@ servername i get servername is null how do i correct it .
thanks
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Apr 5, 2012
I can't use the distribution database because it doesn't exist, and I can't create the distribution database because it already exists.
A failed replication set up had left a fat distribution database that caused the server CPU to peg 100% when I tried to set up a new Transactional replication (halfway through the wizard).
I removed all replication objects from SMSS, but the only thing that fixed it was deleting the distribution database with an ALTER to OFFLINE and a DROP, and restarting SQL.
Now, I'm unable to set up replication.
When I try, I get the error "Database 'distribution' does not exist. Make sure that the name is entered correctly."
In Distributor Properties, the Publisher is shown with a distribution database of 'distribution'. If I untick that, SQL asks if I want to disable the Publisher. I say yes & get the error "Database 'distribution' does not exist.'
Ok, so let's create it. In the General tab of that window I create a new Distribution database and call it 'distribution'. Then I get the error 'Could not add the distribution database 'distribution'. This distribution database already exists.
exec sp_helpdistributor shows distribution database as 'distribution'
SMSS doesn't show the distribution database at all.
How I can proceed?
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Apr 8, 2004
We have a production SQL2K DB with publication.
I found replication stopped, distribution database was marked suspect
and log file is gowning.
I have tried using sp_resetstatus and restart server but recovery
said some IO errors reading distribution's datafile, so I guessed distribution database was totally dead.
I have handful documents telling me how to remove replication and
I am going to take that ride.
Before I do anything real,
is there any warning from you Prof people?
is there any trap I may encounter into?
is that OK to rebuild replication after I remove the dead replication?
highly appreciate for any help and comments.
thanks in advance!
-DW-
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Aug 2, 2007
What job cleans out the distribution database?
Cna you perform maintenance to keep the size down?
Thanks,
Thomas
ThomBeaux
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Aug 8, 2007
Hello,
I have my distribution database at C drive, I have to move this database to another drive D.
May anybody tell me how do this secure, please.
This production environment so I can't make any mistakes.
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Regards
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Aug 3, 2005
Hi all,Is it possible to move the distribution database to a new folder/drivewithout removing replication? I am attempting to do it the same way youwould move tempdb:ALTER DATABASE distribution MODIFY FILE(name = distmodel, filename = 'C:DISTMOVEDdistribution.MDF')ALTER DATABASE distribution MODIFY FILE(name = distmodel_log, filename = 'C:DISTMOVEDdistribution.LDF')But I get -Server: Msg 5037, Level 16, State 1, Line 1MODIFY FILE failed. Do not specify physical name.Thanks,Josh
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Mar 14, 2008
I would like to use SQL Server Express with Advanced Services for both a centralized publication/distribution database and a local subscribing database for offline.
I need to configure the distribution database but do not see the "configure publishing and distribution" option while right-clicking on the Replication folder in SQL Server Management Studio Express.
How do I get that wizard to show? I do see the "New" -> "Subscription" wizard.
I am fairly new, any help would be greatly appreciated with configuring my centralized database. Thanks in advance!
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Oct 24, 2007
Hi all,
I have set up sql 2005 transactional replication .The environment here cannot accept latency so I guess I will have to go with sync db option at the distribution db.My question is what should be my distribution db back up strategy.Should it be scheduled after the backup of the publication db.I am confused.Somebody please help me regarding scheduling it.
Thanks,
SATYA
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May 3, 2006
Hi:
I'm an asp.net programmer and my database is in access format.My server is Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition Service Pack 1.I do not need microsoft access installed on my server to access my database through asp.net.
I want migrate my database to sql server 2005
Could I access my database in sql server 2005 format (mdf) through asp.net without sql server 2005 installed on the server?
could I buy to microsoft only "Database Engine"? orIs there a free distribution of "Database Engine"?
Thanks!!
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