Snapshot Agent && Log Reader Agent Will Not Start.
Nov 30, 2006
Hi All,
I would appreciate any help here at all. I am pulling my hair out!
I am unable to start the snapshot agent or log reader agent from within SQL management studio. it fails on executing step 2 with unknown username or bad password.
I have checked all account details and they are correctly using my domain admin account. I can connect to SQL using teh same account and it also has sysadmin permissions.
If i copy the step 2 paramters and start from the cmd prompt (again logged in using the same domain account) they both start fine.
I am testing peer to peer replication in our environment. I simulated a three node peer to peer topology and a local distributor.
For some wierd reason I cannot get the Log Reader Agent and snapshot agent to start. The domain account under which SQL Server Agent runs has administrator previlage on the box. I also use a domain account for SQL Server Service. (none of the passwords changed).
This is the error I am getting - "Executed as user: abc. A required privilege is not held by the client. The step failed"
We restored a database with replicated tables. Now, the Log Reader Agent will not run. This displays: "The process could not execute 'sp_repldone/sp_replcounters' on 'ourservername'." In Error Details for the agent: "The process could not set the last distributed transaction." And, from the logs: "ForwardLogBlockReadAheadAsync: Operating system error 998(Invalid access to memory location.) encountered."
Does anyone know how we get the Distribution database and the Log Reader running again? It is only affecting Transactional replication (not snapshot or merge).
I'm trying to set up merge replication between a SQL Server 2000 SP4 / Win2k box and a MSDE SP4/WinXP box and I'm finding that the initial snapshot isn't being produced.
The SQL Agent runs as a windows user that has admin privileges, the snapshot agent impersonates the SQL Agent. The SQL Server login for the agent account has the server role "System Administrators" and database access to all db's.
When I turn on logging and try to start the agent, the following is written to the log: Microsoft SQL Server Snapshot Agent 8.00.760 Copyright (c) 2000 Microsoft Corporation Microsoft SQL Server Replication Agent: SVRName-POS-POS_Test_Suburb-1
Connecting to Distributor 'SVRName' SourceTypeId = 5 SourceName = SVRName ErrorCode = 18456 ErrorText = Login failed for user 'SVRNameSQLAgent'. The process could not connect to Distributor 'SVRName'.
Most of the posts I've seen regarding problems like this are due to subscriber authentication issues (not up to that, this is the initial snapshot) or windows/domain user permissions.
I've set up transactional replication with queued updating. If I stop the queue reader agent through EM, I can't start it again. Agent's history says "Queue Reader aborting. The step failed."
Hello, I've configured SQL Server 2000 for merge replication and am trying to start the snapshot agent for the publication and after about 20 minutes of it trying to start, it gives up with this error.
Server execution failed
There is no more information in the event viewer. I've tried it with a bunch of different subscriptions. SQL Server and SQL Agent are running under a local account which has access to the replcation data directory. SQL Agent is running.
HELP>>> I am getting desperate we recently had a failure which ended up wrecking my replication. The basic layout is from a source server -> Distribution Server then out to several other servers. Long story short the distribution database had to be moved to a new drive and I am now getting the following error message
The specified LSN (0003d4f0:0000721e:001b) for repldone log scan occurs before the current start of replication in the log (0003d63a:00002803:0001). (Source: fsdpdcis (Data source); Error number: 18768) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The process could not set the last distributed transaction. (Source: fsdpdcis-DPDDATA-1 (Agent); Error number: 22017)
I have reinitialized all subscriptions on the fsdpdcis server and run subscription validation (with no response). The data did re-load during the reinitialization but does not seem to be getting updated. This is driving me crazy and I am desperate. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I have search MS knowledge base with no results and BOL has not been any help so far.
I recently set up transactional replication from one server database to another server database. I keep getting a Log Reader Agent error: An access violation occurred.
The SQL Server agent starts under one Windows account but the Server is registered under the system account. The log reader agent is using the system account.
I'm not sure what else to check or what database permissions or roles should be set. Can somebody help? Thanks.
Hello, by mistake I added an queue reader agent to a distribution database. But how can I drop the queue agent. There isn't a stored proc 'sp_dropqreader_agent'. The only way I found (apart from dropping the whole distribution databse) is to stop and disable the generated job!
Is there any other way to get rid of the queue reader agent ?
among our server-agent jobs is one for the log-reader-agent and its run status is displayed as error though the log-reader is working correctly, replication is working fine. it had hit an error some days ago after an unexpected shutdown - but it has been auto-restarted correctly on restart of the sql-server agent. now - what can i do to get back to a sensible run-status report? i have already deleted the job-history with the hope that this might help - but it didn't. should i just stop and restart the job again? can i somehow delete the status in the jobhistory? i would gladly appreciate any ideas because it's making me just mad to have a 'failed' job status on the monitor *g*
I'm using our development ID to set up peer-to-peer replication. I am following the steps outlined in the BOL using SQL Studio 2005. When I created the initial publication, I read the section on permissions and assigned the development login ID db_owner. Indeed, to eliminate any possible issues (I thought), I gave it db_datareader, db_datawriter, and all the db admin rights and made very sure the db_denydatareader and db_denydatawriter roles were not checked. I did this through the Logins section of the Security folder and applied the same rights to both the distribution and the publication database. Nevertheless, when I run the LogReader agent job, it fails with the message for step 2 that:
Executed as user: ourdomsqldev. A required privilege is not held by the client. The step failed.
The dev ID essentially has sa rights to the server and all the databases. It is also a domain authenticated ID. Any ideas what's causing this problem? I really need to get the replication going reliably before the weekend is out.
Hi, I was wondering if changing the schedule of the snapshot agent will do any effect the unc/snapshot files ? I'm now doing merge replication and i am applying snapshot from alternate location. If i change the schedule do i need to re run the snapshot agent ? I'm afraid that the current snapshot will be expired..
We have initiated reinitialize subscription by which snapshot agent is started and hanged at 26%.We have a publication of 6 articles, transactional replication, using SQL Server 2008R2.
Hi am trying to create a snapshot (Merge replication) - My database is approx 6GB and one of my tables has 14.5M records - I have a total of 1500 articles to replicate.
When I start creating the snapshot - it seems to just stop on the Table that has the 14.5M records. When I delete all the data in that table it works fine. I have also check disk space and also the log files and tempdb size and all seem ok.
I am using SQL 2005 with the latest SP
Is there any form of verbose logging that I could enable to let me see what is going on
Now I'm choosing Trasactional publication as my publication type. I now can successfully replicate the data from publisher to subscriber without any error.
But now my question is what is the usage of snapshot agent? When I go to Replication Monitor > Agents > Snapshot Agents > Start Agent but failed.
I need to check with you whether the way I start the snapshot agent was not correct? What is the effect if I drop snapshot agent during the replication and DBUpdate are running?
Why would you schedule a Snapshot Agent to run daily, weekly, monthly, etc. for Transactional replication when the transactions are replicated once the change is committed to the Publication database?
Does this help to replicate DDL against the Subscriber?
I have a problem when i Want to run the Snapshot Agent in SQL Server 2005. I have done all the tutorial called Replication Data with Mobile Clients and i done the previous tutorial called : Preparing the Server for Replication. But in the Lesson One i can't run the Snapshot Agent but the publicationis good. Can you help me ? This is the error's code :
Date 25/04/2007 10:44:27 Log Job History (NTI-PC-118-AdventureWorks-AdvWorksSalesOrdersMerge-2)
Step ID 2 Server NTI-PC-118 Job Name NTI-PC-118-AdventureWorks-AdvWorksSalesOrdersMerge-2 Step Name Run agent. Duration 00:00:01 Sql Severity 0 Sql Message ID 0 Operator Emailed Operator Net sent Operator Paged Retries Attempted 0
Message 2007-04-25 09:44:28.29 -Publisher NTI-PC-118 2007-04-25 09:44:28.29 -PublisherDB AdventureWorks 2007-04-25 09:44:28.29 -Publication AdvWorksSalesOrdersMerge 2007-04-25 09:44:28.29 -ReplicationType 2 2007-04-25 09:44:28.29 -Distributor NTI-PC-118 2007-04-25 09:44:28.29 -DistributorSecurityMode 1 2007-04-25 09:44:28.29 -XJOBID 0x893D7BB9E72044489F0A1C1878663E1D 2007-04-25 09:44:28.29 -------------------------------------- 2007-04-25 09:44:28.29 Connecting to Distributor 'NTI-PC-118' 2007-04-25 09:44:28.43 The replication agent had encountered an exception. 2007-04-25 09:44:28.43 Source: Replication 2007-04-25 09:44:28.43 Exception Type: Microsoft.SqlServer.Replication.ReplicationAgentSqlException 2007-04-25 09:44:28.43 Exception Message: The remote server "NTI-PC-118" does not exist, or has not been designated as a valid Publisher, or you may not have permission to see available Publishers. 2007-04-25 09:44:28.43 Message Code: 14080 2007-04-25 09:44:28.43
I'm trying to set up merge replication between SqlServer 2000 and SqlMobile 2005. When I create the publication, I select merge replication for SqlServer CE. When I view the status of the snapshot agent, the error message is "the process could not connect to Distributor. The step failed".
I've verified both SqlServer and SqlServer Agent are running under the same domain account (with admin access to the server). This domain account has full access to the snapshot shared folder. I've also run "exec sp_helpserver", which gives me the server name for both the name and network_name fields where id=0.
I'm able to successfully set up merge replication between SqlServer 2005 and SqlMobile 2005, but my production servers are sql 2000.
When you create a transactional Replication.Is there a way to disable to snapshot agent scheduler. I believe that there is a way to disble it when you create a publisher.
My Snapshot Agent for SQL Server 2005 sometimes does not fully complete. I am expecting around 2073 files in the snapshot folder but only get 492 (this number does change). I have immediate_sync set to true, so I should get a full snapshot every time. It seems to quit after all data has been BCP'ed out and before the schema generation starts. I do get the "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. " message in the MSSnapshot_history table.
I am guessing that there is some sort of blocking that is preventing the snapshot agent from continuing and then it times out and dies. But that is a total guess as I have not been able to observe the behavior, only the outcome.
Any suggestions to what the cause is or how I can fix it?
I am setting up a large number of Push subscribers to a single publication. because of the large number of subscribers, I am not doing the merge with agent jobs, but with SQL RMO. All works well, but from time to time I am getting a funny error when I add a event handler to the snapshotagent, to return the messages, if some feedback to the screen on how the process is getting along.
The error also happen when the process is al most done. Basically when I am not compiling in this line, then NO error.
//Add the Event Handler to receive the Status changes
DynamicSnapshotAgent.Status += AgentEvent;
But once I started getting the error, then it would not go away, sometimes if the publication & subscribers is recreated it goes away but not always, first do not use the event anymore, and at some stage I can put is back after a few succesful dynamic snapshot, then I can enable the event and it will work again........
Any help welkom
Regards
Gertus
Error:
The replication agent had encountered an exception. Source: Unknown Exception Type: System.InvalidOperationException Exception Message: Operation is not valid due to the current state of the object. Message Code: Not Applicable
I am unable to get my snapshot agent to initialize. When I start the "View Snapshot Agent Status" and press the Start button, it appears that the snapshot agent attempts to starts and then it doesn't.
I have configured the a distribution server and need to push a replication to another database, both can connect, etc.
I used the wizard to configure the distributon server and subscription server. I am using AdventureWorks, and am attempting to replicate a single small table.
We have transactional replication publications from SQL 2014 to SQL 20122008 R2. When we add new tables to the existing publication and start the snapshot agent, Snapshot agent updates the statistics for random tables on the publisher DB. It appears that all the outdated statistics are being updated regardless which table is being initiated. In a highly transactional environment we can't update the statistics every time. its causing huge issues for us. Is there any work around for this ?Â
I want to generate a new snapshot using stored procedures. I want to wait for the snapshot files to be created and then execute a stored procedure. What's the best way to determine that the snapshot has completed successfully? I thought of doing something like:
however I can't put the results of that proc into a temp table because I get this error: Msg 8164, Level 16, State 1, Procedure sp_get_composite_job_info, Line 72 An INSERT EXEC statement cannot be nested.
I have been trying to set up transactional replication between an OLTP SQL Server 2005 Standard edition server and a BI SQL Server 2005 Enterprise edition server. I am using a pull subscription. I was able to establish the replication from the developement server to the BI server however when I tried setting up the replication between the production environment and the BI server, using the same configuration settings, I ran into a problem. The production server had been renamed after it was initially set up. I used the sp_dropserver and sp_addserver to solve this issue and was able to run the replication wizard. However once the wizard finishes the snapshot agent doesn't initialize the publication. When I look at the replication monitor it has a status of "never run". I try to run it manually and it appears to run for a few seconds then stops and still has the status of "never run". I don't get any error messages and can't find anything in the log. I am wondering if this is related to the server rename? I am hoping to find a soultion that doesn't involve uninstalling SQL Server and reinstalling since this is a production environment.
When running the snapshot agent for a new publication I get the message:
Message: Query for data failed Stack: at Microsoft.SqlServer.Replication.Snapshot.SqlServer.NativeBcpOutProvider.ThrowNativeBcpOutException(CConnection* pNativeConnectionWrapper) at Microsoft.SqlServer.Replication.Snapshot.SqlServer.NativeBcpOutProvider.BcpOut(String strBcpObjectName, String strBcpObjectOwner, String strBaseBcpObjectName, Boolean fUnicodeConversion, String strDataFile, String strLoadOrderingHint, String strWhereClause) at Microsoft.SqlServer.Replication.Snapshot.SqlServer.NativeBcpOutProvider.BcpOut(String strBcpObjectName, String strBcpObjectOwner, String strBaseBcpObjectName, Boolean fUnicodeConversion, String strDataFile, String strLoadOrderingHint) at Microsoft.SqlServer.Replication.Snapshot.SqlServer.NativeBcpOutProvider.BcpOut(String strBcpObjectName, String strBcpObjectOwner, String strDataFile) at Microsoft.SqlServer.Replication.Snapshot.MergeContentsBcpOutWorkItem.DoWork(MergeSnapshotProvider snapshotProvider, IBcpOutProvider bcpOutProvider) at Microsoft.SqlServer.Replication.Snapshot.MergeContentsBcpOutThreadProvider.DoWork(WorkItem workItem) at Microsoft.SqlServer.Replication.WorkerThread.NonExceptionBasedAgentThreadProc() at Microsoft.SqlServer.Replication.WorkerThread.AgentThreadProc() at Microsoft.SqlServer.Replication.AgentCore.BaseAgentThread.AgentThreadProcWrapper() (Source: MSSQLServer, Error number: 0) Get help: http://help/0 Message: COLV_90_TO_80: Cannot convert parameter param1: Resulting colv would have too many entries. Stack: (Source: MSSQLServer, Error number: 20005) Get help: http://help/20005 Message: The statement has been terminated. Stack: (Source: MSSQLServer, Error number: 3621)
The database has another publication, that was created prior to upgrade to sql server 2005 from sql server 2000 sp4. This publication is working ok, and there are no problems when running the snapshot agent for this publication.
The publications are using filtered articles, and all properties for the publications are the same.
Any help to solve this problem will be much apreciated.
I have a merge publisher with Snapshot agent for that scheduled to run everyday morning, This was runnning till yesterday. But it is not running today and giving the below error.
Can anyone help me out to solve this error? This is occuring in production environment, i really need a solution as fast as possible.
Error messages: · Message: Failed to read column data Stack: at Microsoft.SqlServer.Replication.Snapshot.SqlServer.NativeBcpOutProvider.ThrowNativeBcpOutException(CConnection* pNativeConnectionWrapper) at Microsoft.SqlServer.Replication.Snapshot.SqlServer.NativeBcpOutProvider.BcpOut(String strBcpObjectName, String strBcpObjectOwner, String strBaseBcpObjectName, Boolean fUnicodeConversion, String strDataFile, String strLoadOrderingHint, String strWhereClause) at Microsoft.SqlServer.Replication.Snapshot.SqlServer.NativeBcpOutProvider.BcpOut(String strBcpObjectName, String strBcpObjectOwner, String strBaseBcpObjectName, Boolean fUnicodeConversion, String strDataFile, String strLoadOrderingHint) at Microsoft.SqlServer.Replication.Snapshot.SqlServer.NativeBcpOutProvider.BcpOut(String strBcpObjectName, String strBcpObjectOwner, String strDataFile) at Microsoft.SqlServer.Replication.Snapshot.MergeContentsBcpOutWorkItem.DoWork(MergeSnapshotProvider snapshotProvider, IBcpOutProvider bcpOutProvider) at Microsoft.SqlServer.Replication.Snapshot.MergeContentsBcpOutThreadProvider.DoWork(WorkItem workItem) at Microsoft.SqlServer.Replication.WorkerThread.NonExceptionBasedAgentThreadProc() at Microsoft.SqlServer.Replication.WorkerThread.AgentThreadProc() at Microsoft.SqlServer.Replication.AgentCore.BaseAgentThread.AgentThreadProcWrapper() (Source: MSSQLServer, Error number: 0) Get help: http://help/0 · Message: Shared Memory Provider: No process is on the other end of the pipe. Stack: (Source: MSSQLServer, Error number: 233) Get help: http://help/233 · Message: Communication link failure Stack: (Source: MSSQLServer, Error number: 233) Get help: http://help/233 · Message: Shared Memory Provider: No process is on the other end of the pipe. Stack: (Source: MSSQLServer, Error number: 233) Get help: http://help/233 Message: Communication link failure Stack: (Source: MSSQLServer, Error number: 233)
