Hi There Gurus - Another Replication question for you all:
Can anyone point me in the right direction to get info on using Linked Servers in Snapshot Replication?
We have Replication all scripted & working between Registered servers, but one of our divisions is not allowing us to register their box on the Parent - ONLY a Linked server.
However (the distributor) is not visible to Apollo2 so I am unable to subscribe.
Do you have any idea what I need to do to make it visible? I setup an ftp site to drop the publication (as I was unable to create an UNC Share) and I was hoping to be able to subscribe to it. Probably it is a matter of permissions...maybe a firewall? should I ask my provider to open a port? do I need to create the same 3 accounts in the Subscriber? something like Apollo2SubscriberUser?
I am having trouble finding any documentation on how linked servers are set-up under SQL 2005 for log-shipping and replication. Under SQL 2000, the only linked servers "visible" were ones that were user-defined. Under SQL 2005, it seems when you set-up log-shipping or replication, you get these new linked servers which are automatically defined. I would like to understand them and in particular, how security is maintained. We recently had a production issue where after some problem with a server which resulted in having to restart SQL Server, and shrink msdb, log-shipping started to fail authentication when trying to run alert jobs. Only after rebooting the server, and also the log-ship target server, and waiting 9 hours, did the authentication correct itself. I would like to know how it resolved itself and what took so long?
I have multiple web databases for storefront orders as linked servers on SQL Server 2008 R2. I need to organize the data for these orders into a structure that can be imported into my ERP application db frequently either on demand or periodically during the day. We are essentially trying to make the manual order entry process automated. My thought was to get the data into views that resemble the schema of the order table in my application db and then schedule a stored procedure with sql jobs or a load routine from within the ERP application that would insert data from the view into the order table.
Create jobs to copy database and restore database in destination servers
------------ Robert at 5/7/2002 11:00:30 AM
Yes and I would rather not use dts to accomplish this task.
------------ Ray Miao at 5/7/2002 10:02:15 AM
Do you have direct network connection to remote server? Did you try dts?
------------ Robert at 5/7/2002 9:08:06 AM
I've been trying to replicate a database to an off site server using snapshot replication. It is scheduled to run every hour but I've noticed when data is changed at the source it never gets replicated to the destination. Does anyone know why?? I can't use transactional replication beause not all the tables have primary keys and they can't be added due to code. Some tables have id colunms and have been created with the Not for Replication option on the subscriber. Any help will be appreciated.
I can set up snapshot replication for those tables without foreign key constraints. But if there are foreign keys in the table, there will be error message indicating that this object can not be dropped because it is referenced by ....
1) In snapshot replication, can the subsciber send info back to the publisher (even in a manual process)
2) In snapshot replication, do we need a distributor set up between the publisher and subscriber if there will only be a single subscriber, or can we write directly to it?
We have a production server in East Coast (SQL Server 2000 SP2 - Database size is around 30 Gig). We have a reporting server is the West Coast. We need to replicate (transactional replication every one hour) from East coast to West coast. Is there any way that I can take a backup and restore upto the last transaction backup and then start replication agent on the production (by saying schema and data already exist). Basically we don't wan't to snapshot using FTP or bcp through WAN because it is going to be very slow.
If this is possible, will there be any validation problem.
Suppose i want to replicate data from server A to server B I am using snaphot replication.I did the snapshot replication for the first time and server B got a snapshot of server A.
Next time i run snapshot i want the incremental data to be replicated and not all..Is this possible in snapshot replication? If not which type of replication should i use?
Hi All,I have set up a snapshot replication, and schedule it to run everynight. The snapshot run successfully, and data get replicated to thesubscribed server. However, data do not get transfer as the second dayand there after. I check the job history, the job (distribution) runsuccessfully. I start the snapshot agent again, then data gettransferred. I can schedule the snapshot agent to run every night, butthis is just not the way it's supposed to be. Is there anyone out therecan give me some help. Thanks.
I am using SQL SERVER 2005 snapshot wizard to create snapshot. But as soon as i create a snapshot it takes away all the indexes and constraint for the tabels on the subscription end although i have this indexes and constraint on Publisher side.
Can someone help me in finding if their is some setting to create a snapshot without losing indexes and constraints or if their is some other way to do this.
Hi is that possible to configure replication in the following situation.
server A is built by snap of server B. Because i am able to create publisher on server B but i am unable to create same on server A.
could any one explain the situation, why it is happening this way.
any help is appriciated.
if you are curious what kind of error i got.
TITLE: Publisher Properties
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An error occurred connecting to Publisher 'SERVER A'.
For help, click: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?ProdName=Microsoft+SQL+Server&ProdVer=9.00.1399.06&EvtSrc=Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.UI.PubshrPropertiesErrorSR&EvtID=CantConnectToPublisher&LinkId=20476
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
SQL Server replication requires the actual server name to make a connection to the server. Connections through a server alias, IP address, or any other alternate name are not supported. Specify the actual server name, 'SERVER B'. (Replication.Utilities)
I am looking forward at performing a SNAPSHOT REPLICATION between a 2000-Publisher and a 2005-Subscriber. But on following the wizard the latter is unable to recognize the publisher.
Could anyone help to let me know the possible reason or if there is some setting which i may have missed out?
We encounter a difficult problem in our production environment.
I have a merge replicaiton which contains 10 tables from Server s1 and database d1 to Server s2 and database d2. Among those 10 tables 5 of them are true merge tables ( carry data both ways, from publisher to subscriber and from subscriber to publisher). Other 5 tables I would like them to carry data only one way from publisher to subscriber ( never merge data from subscriber). Anyone has any suggestions how I impliment this?
We are using Snapshot replication to move data for our Data Warehouse from a server which performs the loading to the production reporting server. We are currently using Sql Server 2005 in both environments. The loading server is setup as the Distributor and Publisher and the production reporting server is setup as the subscriber. However, the replication is not automated instead we only want it to run if the load process is successful. To do this we did not set a schedule for replication but added the jobs that the Replication Wizard created to our own Sql Agent job which manages the load. I have listed the below commands that the sql agent is running for replication in the order in which they are ran.
In our own job we run each of these jobs using the EXEC SP_START_JOB() procedure. Each job listed above runs under their own PROXY account.
Finally, we are experiencing an intermittent problem where the Agent will report it is unable to Copy data into "X" table, with "X" being any one of the tables in the reporting database. This has only ever occurred during the automation process and not from manually running each agent job. This problem also might not occur for a couple of days and then might occur 2 or 3 days in a row, which has led us to question the dependability of this approach.
In closing I would like to ask if there is a problem with the way we have set it up? Something we could do to improve the process so it becomes more reliable? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Is there anyway to prevent deadlocks during the snapshot replication?
I understand that you can minimize by maybe creating a couple different snapshots (mixing tables to minimize locking while snapshot is being created), but is there any other way?
I configured the transactional replication using push method. I use the option generate snapshot. Until the Snapshot complete, I didn't any tables in the subscriber db.After that also I can see in some tables it has indexes and some tables it doesn't but it has data in that table .
How does the bulk copy works from snapshot?i.e. is it first create the table with columns then insert data later it will create the indexes...How the sequence works in the subscriber.
Hello, Harry Half wit here!! I know that snapshot replication is the simplest form of syncing with SQL server and I can't even figure that out today!!. I keep getting myself confused as to who should be configured to be a publisher, distibutor or subscriber etc etc. My scenario is simple: 1 server creating a daily snapshot of a table and then 1 remote laptop (msde) pulls the snapshot into it's own database. Heres what i did so far; I configured the server to be a publisher and distributor (is that right?) and didn't set up any subscribers because i want to do that from my remote. From the remote I did nothing but go into EM tools"create new pull subscription" but I cannot see the publication on the server.
SHould I set my remote to be a distributor to do this?
Snapshot replication. View synchronization status. Last status message: "The job failed. The Job was invoked by User distributor_admin. The last step to run was step 3 (Detect nonlogged agent shutdown.)."
What should I do to make the synchronization work?
I have two clusters and one publishes snapshots and the other cluster subscribes. I am planning an SP2 installation but I see in the SP2 readme that there are only special considerations for merge and transaction replication.
Will I need to patch in a certain order and will it matter if I patch the publisher who is also the distributor and then a week later patch the subscriber?
Cannot find either column "dbo" or the user-defined function or aggregate "dbo.fn_ComputerHeartbeat", or the name is ambiguous. (Source: MSSQLServer, Error number: 4121) Get help: http://help/4121
Cannot find either column "dbo" or the user-defined function or aggregate "dbo.fn_ComputerHeartbeat", or the name is ambiguous. (Source: MSSQLServer, Error number: 4121) Get help: http://help/4121
Unfortunately I can't find much help with this error.
What I'm trying to do is to create a snapshot replication where it is pushed from the publication server. I have it kinda working but my problem is that the subscription server is not grabbing the tables its asking for. It only grabs some replication tables.
I have noticed two things.
First: When I go to Job syncrinization progress it states that its still in progress even though the replicated database is Very small.
Second: In replication Monitor under the subscription watch list tab it states that the subscription has never been initialized.
We have a database which was replicated with merge replication. we added a few table and a field to another. When I try to create the snapshot I get:
An error was raised during trigger execution. The batch has been aborted and the user transaction, if any, has been rolled back.
I have detached and re-attached the db, removed all triggers from the tables, and still I cannot recreate the snapshot the last step before the error as listed in the monitor is generating all procedures for all table articles 49%.
can anybody tell me about Linked Servers and their uses and how to add a linked server to my Sql Server 2005. any help on this would be highly appreciated.
I have been trying to Link two sql servers on two different machines over the Internet without any luck. Can someone point me to information about doing this with good examples?
I currently have a main SQL Server which had a column on the majority of the tables. This column also had a check contraint on it. I dropped the column and the constraint and I now get the following message when trying to query the tables through a linked server 'OLE DB provider 'SQLOLEDB' supplied inconsistent metadata. An extra column was supplied during execution that was not found at compile time.'.