Becareful while running Bulk Operations on a database which is in merge replication

  Recently one of our customers ran Bulk insert into one of their databases which was in merge replication and later on found that Merge replication has stopped working. 1. When data is loaded into tables using the bcp Utility or the BULK INSERT command, by default, the merge replication triggers that maintain tracking data…

Did you know: Changing your database to Full Recovery Model will not effect until we take Full Database Backup

Hi All, In my today’s post I will be explaining a very basic stuff which we are expected to know but sometimes we may miss out on it and can lead to adverse consequences. My Field experience tells me most customer tend to forget it and hence I thought I would pen it down in…

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Transactional Replication in SQL 2008 Fails “The distribution agent failed to create temporary files in ‘C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL Server100COM’ directory. System returned errorcode 5.”

It has been really long time since I have updated this blog as my Job involves a lot of travel however I try my best to update it frequently. In this blog I am going to discuss a issue which one of Customers encountered recently. Recently One of Customers had upgraded to SQL 2008 with…

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Log Reader Agent Fails when the Sql server instance is failed over to Node 2

  We have observed a number of case where we use sql server replication on a clustered instance of sql server and when we try to failover from Node 1 to Node 2 the Log Reader agent may fail to start with the following error   Error messages: The process could not execute ‘sp_MSpub_adjust_identity’ on…

The subscription fails to Sync with the Publisher and marked inactive even though the settings have been configured to “never expire”

  We get the below error message when distribution agent tries to sync, Error: 14151, Severity: 18, State: 1. The subscription(s) have been marked inactive and must be reinitialized. NoSync subscriptions will need to be dropped and recreated. CAUSE: ====== When we check the Publication properties, we find that the options for subscription expiration are…