Hi There
If i apply Sql Server 2005 SP1 to a remote distributor can i keep all publication and subscriptions intact?
I am hoping i simply stop all repl jobs on the distributor, apply SP1 and then restart the jobs.
Is this correct ?
Thanx
SQL 2000.
If I have a server setup to use a remote server for replication distribution can I actually change which server is the distributor?
Example
Server1 has publications
Server2 is distributor for Server1's Publication
Server3 is new hardware
Can i Make Server3 replace Server2 as the distributor?
How can I do this?
using SQL 2000,
Can you setup a SQL Cluster to work as a Remote Distributor? Would there be any challenges in doing this?
Hi,
Server A houses the Production DB which services an OLTP system. Transactional replication is configured on this server which has two subscribers - on two separate servers (servers B and C). The Distribution database currently resides on Server A (which is also the Publisher).
Server B is on the same LAN as Server A (on the same rack). I'm considering moving the Distribution database from Server A to Server B to offload some of the processing overhead from Server A.
Are there any gotchas/performance problems associated with having the Distribution database (remote distributor) and the Subscriber on the same server (server B) in a transaction replication topology?
Please advise or point me to the appropriate documentation - I haven't found anything that addresses this specific question...thanks in advance,
Smitha
I am setting up  transaction replication in SQL Server 2012 with three individual servers for Distributor, Publisher, Subscriber, But I want to know how to set the folder for Snapshot agent like whether the folder should be a network shared folder or normal local folder.
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MS recommends to use remote Distributor for mirroring. It looks like it will be a single point of failure. What are my options ? We can't mirror it, is failover clustering the only way to go (SAN being single point of failure) ? How would log shipping work, if I didn't get the very last completed transaction log fast enough to the other machine, so that recovered distribution database would be behind ?
Also, if distributor fails, would my transaction logs on publisher fill up the entire disk space ? Can it be stopped ?
Thank you.
Hi all,
I am having a problem now. I cannot drop my publisher and publication because i was uninstalled the remote distibutor before i disable al lthe publication. Now the remote distibutor no longer exist.
Can another one help me? Urgent!!
We have inherited a remote distribution db where the password has been lost. I would like to confirm that if you change the password in the distributor properties-->publishers--> administrative link password that the password will be changed on all publishers without having to resnap the publications?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am planning to have AlwaysON Availability Group setup between Server 1 and Server 2
Server 1 -->Publisher-->2014 SQL Enterprise edition-->Windows Std 2012 --> Always on Primary Replica
Server 2 -->Publisher(when DR happens)-->2014 SQL Enterprise edition-->Windows Std 2012 --> Secondary  Primary
Server 3 -->Subscriber-->2012 SQL Enterprise edition-->Windows Std 2012 --> NOT involved in Always ONÂ
Server 4 -->Subscriber-->2012 SQL Standard edition-->Windows Std 2012 --> NOT involved in Always ONÂ
Server 5(VM)-->Distributor-->2012 Standard edition-->Windows Std 2012-->not involved in Always ON
i know Publisher and subscribers can be mix match of 2014 and 2012 rom the above scenarios can i use (VM)SQL2012 std. as Distributor ? while publisher is being SQL 2014 ent.?
I have 2 servers: #1 -- SQL 2005 SP1 publisher ; #2 -- SQL 2005 SP2 subscriber
originally I had #1 as pub and dist but dist but killing my CPU so I was in the process of moving the dist to #2... Got it all configured and when I tried to add #2 as a dist for #1 it fails when I get to the administrative password screen... It give me an error about how it cannot connect with the given password but under that is says linked server failed.
Since it mentioned linked server I tried to connect via the previous linked server to #2 and it failed... I cannot connect to #2 anymore from #1. I can login directly to #2 and I can use osql to connect to #2 but linked server does not work. I tried all drivers and many configurations...
Any ideas??
Hi,
I am replicating a couple of SQL2K databases via transactional rep and remote 2K distributor to 1 SQL2K5 database.
I want the distributor to email me when/if any of the agents fail etc. In order to set this up, I think that I need the SQL Server service to use a domain account (from error messages that I have been getting). It is currently using a local system account (it was a test box in a previous life).
I have tried this briefly, and found that it lost the publisher details in the replication monitor. Can anyone tell me what the implications for changing the SQL server service user and password are? Am I going to have to tear down and rebuild replication? The SQL Server Agent is fine - I am trying to get the two services in sync.
I am not able to connect to Remote Distributor from Publisher using Administrative Link Password. I have configured the Distributor on 1 m/c and Publisher on another m/c. When i use the wizard to configure the publisher using remote distributor. I have also specified the same Admin Password link (distributor_admin) in the distributor m/c.
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I am getting the following message:
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TITLE: New Publication Wizard------------------------------
SQL Server could not connect to the Distributor using the specified password.
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Connection to server [SANMENON] failed.OLE DB provider "SQLNCLI" for linked server "D956CF83-AE2E-4FC5-83DD-BE90D84A3950" returned message "Login timeout expired".OLE DB provider "SQLNCLI" for linked server "D956CF83-AE2E-4FC5-83DD-BE90D84A3950" returned message "An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections.". (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 21670)
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Precedents
Windows 2000 Server
1 SERVERNAME
SQL Server 2000 - 8.00.818 (Intel X86) May 31 2003 16:08:15
Enterprise Edition on Windows NT 5.0 (Build 2195: Service Pack 4)
1 SERVERNAMEINSTANCE
SQL Server 2000 - 8.00.2039 (Intel X86) May 3 2005 23:18:38
Desktop Engine on Windows NT 5.0 (Build 2195: Service Pack 4)
IIS 5.0
SQL Server CE 2.0 (sp3a)
Merge replication previously working fine.
The problem
After migrating MSDE from sp3a to sp4 (in order to fix CE replication bug) I can't sync to MSDE.
I got the following error code: [29045]->[Initializing SQL Server Reconciler has failed.] so I've looked into SQL Server CE log file and I've found the following error message:
2006/02/07 19:44:23 Thread=9A8 RSCB=4 Command=SYNC Hr=00000000
The process could not connect to Distributor 'Distributor-name'. 20084
2006/02/07 19:44:23 Thread=9A8 RSCB=4 Command=SYNC Hr=00000000
Data source name not found and no default driver specified
I've already tried without success
Uninstalling all SQL Server 2000 (EE) instances (except for the "no instance")
Unistalling and re-install MSDE (sp4)
Re-registering sscerp20.dll.
Rebooting server.
Restarting IIS.
Any ideas?
Sebastian
After extensive testing I have found that bcp's run almost twice as fast on my dedicated Distributor than on either the Publisher or Subscriber. I was wondering if there is a way to make the bcp's spawned by creating a Snapshot run on the distributor and not the Publisher.
Any comments?
I was wondering if you could set up multiple distributors for one database?For example:Server A needs to publish data to server B so I set up server A's distributor as server B. Later Server A needs to publish data to server C so I want to set up the distributor for this replication to use server C.I don't think this is possible as you need to set up the distributor for the entire DB when its created not for each individual replication job.Any help is appreciated.Nick
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am having problem creating a distributor on my sever, when i do it thru the enterprise manager it defaults to another sever's path and when i put the severs path it dosen't find it.
and when i do it thru query analzer this is what i get
sp_adddistributor @distributor = 'vivian'
,@heartbeat_interval = 10
, @password = 'grants831'
-- , @from_scripting = from_scripting
The error message that we get is,
Server: Msg 6, Level 16, State 1, Procedure sp_adddistributor, Line 147
Specified SQL server not found.
Remote logins for remote server 'repl_distributor' have been dropped.
Server dropped.
Server added.
Server network name set.
and for this it is going to another server
sp_adddistributor @distributor = '158.72.80.48'
,@heartbeat_interval = 10
, @password = 'grants831'
-- , @from_scripting = from_scripting
error message
Server: Msg 18482, Level 14, State 1, Procedure sp_adddistributor, Line 147
Could not connect to server 'GEMS' because 'vivian' is not defined as a remote server.
Remote logins for remote server 'repl_distributor' have been dropped.
Server dropped.
Server added.
Server network name set.
Completed SQL 2000 Transactional Replication from distributor/publisher to Subscriber. (with identity problem solved)
NOW wizard disallows set up subscriber to publish back to the Distributor/Publisher. "Distributor not known" message on Subscriber server when we open configure Publisher-Subscriber tool.
Any experience using this wizard to set this up would be appreciated.
Does anyone know if there are any known issues with using a 64 bit distributor and 32 bit publisher together?
This is SQL 2005 and Push Merge replication.
Thanks in advance
Martin
For remote distributor (transactional replication,distribution database 50GB, 3 day retention), what is the most critical resource except disk ?
Is it CPU intensive ? does it use lots of memory (i.e. would 4GB be enough) ?
Thank you
Hi There
View 3 Replies View RelatedHello, I have 3 servers sql 7 sp3, 1 editor, a distributor and an subscriber. the base on the editor is removed, how to make to remove all traces of replication on the distributor and the subscriber.
thank you. Pascal
Hi all,
I'm having a problem configuring one of my SQL servers
as a distributor. I've done it successfully on another
server, so I know that it's nothing procedural and there
must be an issue with the way the server is set up.
When I click 'finish' on the Configure Publication and
Distribution Wizard, I get the following error message:
Enterprise Manager could not configure 'ABEL' as the
distributor for 'ABEL'.
Error 20017: Cannot add the remote distributor at this time.
Make sure that the local server is configured as a Distribution
Publisher at the Distributor.
Can anyone point me in the right direction? I'm fairly new
to SQL Server, so feel free to explain things in a
condescending manner. ;-)
hi,
I'm reading the MS online docs about replication. there's something not so clear until so far.
I have one central server and 7 client servers.
Sometimes new data is entered at one client server. This should be replicated (when client comes online) to the Central Server (merge replication).
Also, the other way, once the central server gets new data (that was replicated from a client), it should be again replicated to all 6 other clients (from the central server).
now, who should i configure as the distributor, publisher and subscriber?
Hi this is SQL 2000 but I couldn't see a forum for SQL 2000 replication.
I have set up merge replication. Between a server and an msde laptop.
The sync works fine within the network but when the user goes home and vpn's into the network and tries to replicate they get an error message that says:
"...server is not configured as a distributor" I find this strange because the replication definitely works within the network.
I have publisher and distributor, both on SQL 2005. I need to re configure replication. When I try to create publisher, the wizard gives me an option to give password to connect to Distributor. Even after resetting this password on the distributor server, publisher still gives me the following error.
SQL Server could not connect to the Distributor with the specified password. SQL Server Error 21670.
Need urgent help. Thank you!
Hello,I'm trying to set up transactional replication on two SQL2k Servers.Unfortunately I stuck on the following problem:I use 'Configure Publishing and Distribution Wizard' , I make one of theservers (publisher) its own distributor, then I set all the paths .Afterpressing 'Finish' button, the wizard tries to perform next step i.e.'Configuring Distributor' and I get the error:"Error 14114: '(null)' is not configured as a Distributor". Does anyone haveidea what I should do in order to solve the problem?I tried to run procedures manually, and I get exactly the same error when Itry to execute sp_adddistributondbThanks,Piotrek
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am trying to "Configure Distributor" prior to setting up the publications. When I go through the wizard, at the very last step I get the following error:
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SQL Server could not configure 'serverName' as a Distributor.
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
An exception occurred while executing a Transact-SQL statement or batch. (Microsoft.SqlServer.ConnectionInfo)
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Cannot find the principal 'sa', because it does not exist or you do not have permission.
'distribution' is not configured as a distribution database.
Changed database context to 'master'. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 15151)
******************************************************************************************
I have renamed the 'sa' account. Is there a place I need to change it to the new name for the distributor to work?? Thanks.
hi friends
i am creating the Merge Replication between two server(both SQLServer-2005, on XP).
Server names are as
1. HB5B
2. VSNET1
i) On server HB5B, i had created the Publication with name 'hb_pub'.
(publisher & Distributer on HB5B server)
ii) On server VSNET1, i had created the Pull Subscription, for the publication name hb_pub( form the server HB5B), this starts fine.
iii) When i went to Viwe Synchroniztion status, it says
The process could not connect to Distributor 'HB5B'
iv) i too check the Distributor properties, its seems fine for me.
v) On server VSNET1, if creats the Push Subscription, for the publication name hb_pub( form the server HB5B), this starts fine.
vi) When i went to Viwe Synchroniztion status, it says
The server 'VSNET1' is not a Subscriber. (.Net SqlClient Data Provider)
vii) if i try again the Start button on the Viwe Synchroniztion status, it says the job is already running (with job name), Change the database context to 'HBmyDB' ( this is my database name).
the check list i made is
i) I had log on as service(SQL Server Agent (MSSQLSERVER) & SQL Server (MSSQLSERVER) ) as Administrator at server VSNET1(i mean it had the administrative right) & restarted them.
ii) I do have the administrative rights on the both of the machines.
iii) both Server have same 'sa' passwords.
please help me
any solution, hint or idea.
Regards
Thanks
Gurpreet S. Gill
I have a small problem, I get this following error when trying to start the snapshot agent "The process could not connect to the distributor 'distributor name'. NOTE: The step was retried the requested number of times [10] without succeeding. The step failed.
I thought it was related to users or rights but i am using the same user than in previous replication with the server and the rights haven't been altered. I don't know if someone has some knowledge of what to do or a workaround solution, any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance.
I am setting up my 2005 Replication system...
publisher = 2005 sp1
Subscriber = 2005 sp1
I created a publication for a single table. Then I created the subscription to another 2005 server. Had to add it as a subscriber in the wizard. Told it to do the snapshot right away.
Everything seems fine right up to the point where it tries to connect to the subscriber... I get a cannot connect error. I have tried all kinds of security context and accounts for the sql agent to run under but nothing seems to work. I cannot even get a linked server to work. I have the subscriber setup to accept remote connections.
I am not sure where to look at next... I never had this issue in 2000.
What is the minimum SQL Server version I can use on my replication distributor server? My publisher and subscriber(s) will all be Enterprise Edition (64 bit). However, it seems awefully wasteful to put Enterprise Edition on a box that is just used for distribution. That's another $15K for a server that doesn't do much. Can I use a lower version (Express, Developer, Standard)?
Thank you,
Ben Wolf
I AM TRYING TO SET UP A DISTRIBUTOR ON SQL SERVER 2005.
THE LAST STEP WHEN I AM TRING TO CONNECT I GET THE ERROR BELOW:
“ORACLE SERVER INSTANCE 'FOOBAR' CANNOT BE ENABLED AS A PUBLISHER BECAUSE OF THE FOLLOWING ERROR:
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
UNABLE TO RUN SQL*PLUS. MAKE CERTAIN THAT A CURRENT VERSION OF THE ORACLE CLIENT CODE IS INSTALLED AT THE DISTRIBUTOR. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, SEE SQL SERVER ERROR 21617 IN TROUBLESHOOTING ORACLE PUBLISHERS IN SQL SERVER BOOKS ONLINE. (MICROSOFT SQL SERVER, ERROR: 21617)�
RESEARCHING THE ERROR IT STATES TO MAKE SURE SQLPLUS IS SET UP CORRECTLY IN THE PATH. THE PATH IS CORRECT. TESTING SQL PLUS IT WORKS; AND I CAN ALSO CONNECT TO THE ORACLE DB IN BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE.
ANY HELP WOULD BE APPRECIATED.
Hi all
Can the Snapshot be copied from the distributor to the subscriber and then from the subscriber using the copied snapshot, create a subscription to the publisher?
Urgent help would be greatly appreciated
WARNING: Running on cold coffee!