As the business requirement, It is very common to see a request for adding a new article or subscription to the existing publication. After adding the new article or subscription to the existing publication, we use snapshot agent to initialize it so that data can flow from Publisher to Distributor to Subscriber(s). But, the snapshot […]
SQL Replication SubscriptionStreams setting
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In this blog, we will talk about improving distribution agent throughput by modifying the profile parameter – “SubscriptionStreams”. I will be discussing a few real time scenarios where I implemented the parameter to isolate latency issue between Distributor and Subscriber. Real Time Scenario Let’s think about; In your environment, you found that there are a few millions of […]
What Immediate_sync means in Transactional Replication – Part1
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In my previous two blogs – Capture Important Parameters of the SQL Server Replication and Add new articles to existing Transactional Replication without initializing old articles, I mentioned about one of the very critical parameters to consider is the immediate_sync in the Transactional Replication. Let’s understand both the options of the parameter. When you say; immediate_sync= true It […]
Add new articles to existing Transactional Replication without initializing old articles
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Suppose, you have Transactional Replication configured in your production environment. There is a business requirement to add a new article to the existing publication, and you would like to initialize only the newly added article instead of all articles in the publication. To achieve the above requirement, I will be using below-mentioned Publisher Server, Publication Database, and Subscriber […]
Capture Important Parameters of the SQL Server Replication
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Whenever there is a business requirement to add a new article to an existing publication, you want to know how the publication is going to behave during the initialization. Basically, you start asking following questions to yourself; Will a new snapshot (running the snapshot agent of the publication) cause to initialize\reinitialize to all the articles […]
Setting Up a Subscription
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In the last two blogs, we went through Configure Distribution Database and Publication Creation. If you haven’t read them, I will request you to go through before you start exploring this blog. If you don’t have the Subscription database, You must create your subscription database. Once you created the database, you’re ready to create your […]
Setting Up a Publication for Transaction Replication
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In the previous blog, we discussed how to Configure Distribution Database. Once you setup your Distribution database successfully, you can create a publication. Here, we will learn how to create a publication for Transaction Replication and how many jobs get created after the publication setup. Create Publication I’ll walk you through step by step process […]