Transaction Replication: Distribution Agent Owner
Aug 16, 2005Hello!
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SQL 2005 Error: Replication-Replication Distribution Subsystem: Agent (null) Failed.
Jun 15, 2007I'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, 2001I 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.
Replication And Distribution Agent
May 3, 2000Please, 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
Replication Distribution Agent Error
Feb 1, 2001I 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, 2002I 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
Replication - Distribution Agent Becomes Idle
Aug 21, 2006I 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
Replication Distribution Agent Does Not Start
Jul 20, 2005Hi,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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Nov 14, 2005Hi,
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Jul 27, 2015I created a Calculated measure in cube something like this : ([TransType].[TransTypeHierarchy].[TransTypeCategoryParent].&[SPEND],[Measures].[Transaction Amount]). To get only spend transactions. Now, I want to slice this measure with same hierarchy to find the amount distribution across different transaction types under spend transaction. But this query behaving like the measure doesn't have relation with measure.
you can think this as below query:
WITH
MEMBER SPEND AS ([TransType].[TransTypeHierarchy].[TransTypeCategoryParent].&[SPEND],[Measures].[Transaction Amount])
SELECT NON EMPTY {SPEND} ON 0
,NON EMPTY ([TransType].[TransTypeHierarchy].[TransTypeCategoryParent]) ON 1
FROM [CUBE]
Distribution Agent
Nov 13, 2002HI,
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
Distribution Agent Basics?
Nov 6, 2006Hey 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
Distribution Agent At The Publisher
Apr 27, 2008hi,
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,
Stopping The Distribution Agent
Oct 2, 2007Maybe 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
Problem With Distribution Agent
Oct 28, 2006Can 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
Intermitent Distribution Agent Errors
Mar 24, 2008I 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?
Distribution Agent Insufficient Permissions
Jan 11, 2007Hi,
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.
Distribution Agent Failed But Didn't ???
Nov 15, 2005Hi There
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Dec 22, 2006Replication 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?
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SQL Agent Job Owner
Nov 7, 2001Hi, can a SQL Server Agent job owner be a userid instead of sa? I tried to changed it to my own
userid with sysadmin role but the job wouldn't run unless it is own by sa.
Distribution Agent Distrib.exe Taking Up Memory
Nov 25, 2002Hi,
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!
Transactional Push Distribution Agent Slow
Jan 12, 2007We 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.
Who Is Running DTS And Job, Owner Or Sql Agent Account ?
Dec 19, 2001Hi everybody.
Need help with secuity
1. SQLAgent servive = domainMy_local_admin
2. Job created
Ownner: domainSQLDBA
step1
exec sp_Who2
step2
Run DTS
a)Connect to ANOTHER_SQL_SERVER USING windows authentication
b) truncate table xxx
3. Run daily every 1 hr
1. Who will run job, domainMy_local_admin or domainSQLDBA ?
2. What account will be used to connect to ANOTHER_SQL_SERVER in step2
thank you
Error - Distribution Agent Failed To Create Temporary Files
Sep 17, 2014I'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.
Distribution Transaction Retention
Nov 6, 2007I currently have a simple transactional replication setup for a database. My publisher and distributor are on the same box. The subscription is setup using a push agent.
My question is related to recovery of the subscriber.
So lets say replication is setup and working fine. Suddenly we had a failure on the subscriber database. Now I could just reconfigure the subscription, and the subscribing database would be back up and good to go, but the problem is that over time, we have made some changes to the subscribing database that are not made in the publisher. For example, the tables have different indexes. Just reconfiguring the subscritpion would not recover these objects.
So I have to acutally restore the subscriber database. So I do that, and apply transaction logs up to the most recent transaction log backup. Now, consider that my transaction log backups on the subscriber happen every 4 hours, and the most recent transaction log backup I had was from 3 hours ago. So now at this point, my subscribing database is 3 hours behind my publisher.
Now, will the distribution agent resend the missing 3 hours of transactions?
In the distribution agent properties, there are two settings for transaction retention, "at least" and "but not more than". Currently they set to 0 and 72 hours respectivly. Now I would assume that if I set the "at least" setting to the subscriber transaction log backup period, in this case 4 hours, I would be covered, and the distribution agent would indeed re-replication the transactions that happend since the recovery point 3 hours.
I just wanted to verify that this is acutally what these settings are refering too, and that if I set the "at least" setting to 4 hours, I would be covered.
- Eric
Distribution Agent Error - (Multiple-step OLE DB Operation Generated Errors....)
Oct 18, 2005Hi,
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Jan 24, 2007When a distribution job step "Retry Attempts" is > 0 and the step has certain problems, the step is "retried" after "Retry Interval".
But I am uncertain as to the details. Are the retries within one database transaction? Does each "try" get its own transaction? And what about connection? Is the "retry" done with the same connection? I know this may sound funny but I would like to know exactly what is going on here.
Thanks,
SQL Server 2000 Standard Edition - Distribution Agent Dieing When Network Connection Fails
May 21, 2007Hi,
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
Distribution Database For Replication
Mar 9, 1999When 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
Distribution Server - Replication
Aug 25, 2004What happens when Distributor Server goes down in Transactional
Replication, no corruption (power , hardware failure)??
Thanks,
John
Replication And Distribution: Agents
Dec 5, 2006Hi 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
Transactional Replication Distribution
May 17, 2006Hi
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
SQL Server Agent Could Not Access Replication Agent
Feb 19, 2007We just moved source server to newer, bigger box ... Windows 2003 and Active Directory ... Snapshot agent worked but distribution failed ... Same login as on older machine, login is sysadm, used DCOMCNFG to allow ability to launch process ... What are we missing?
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