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Troubleshooting LogReader Error “repldone log scan occurs before the current start of replication” Chris Skorlinski Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Services Below are cause and recommendation for the SQL Replication LogReader error “The specified LSN...

Distribution Agent fails with: Error Locating Server/Instance Specified [xFFFFFFFF]. Sateesh Yele Microsoft SQL Server Support Symptom Distribution Agent is failing when connecting to subscriber server when replicating between cross domain servers. Consider...

Change Data Capture Best Practices Chris Skorlinski Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Services This CDC Best Practices BLOG posting page will continue to grow as we gain more real-world experience designing and supporting CDC. These recommendation come...

How SQL Server 2005/2008 Replication resumes interrupted snapshot delivery Anurag Sharma Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Services Background In many cases customer often have large databases published and creating a snapshot of such large database is...

Distribution Agent Fails with error Msg 0, Level 20, State 0, Line 0 Chris Skorlinski SQL Server Escalation Services Any Cox Microsoft Premier Field Engineer We recently encounter the a problem where Replication Distribution Agent failed with error below...

References and Links on Change Data Capture Chris Skorlinski Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Services I’m developing in-depth training on Change Data Capture and created this BLOG posting as a reference for BOL topics and Web links I found helpful while...

Stored Procedure schema changes are not being replicated when using ”initialize with backup” Chris Skorlinski Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Services SQL Replication allows you to replicate user-defined Stored Procedures code to subscribers similar...

What happens if I select Create a snapshot immediately in the Publication Wizard? Chris Skorlinski Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Services When creating a Transactional Replication publication, what happens if I check Create a snapshot immediately and...

How to manually synchronize replication subscriptions by using backup or restore Chris Skorlinski Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Services The Microsoft Knowledge Base contains the following article for setting up a SQL 2000 Subscriber using Backup/Restore...

Merge Agent blocked by sp_mergemetadataretentioncleanup Chris Skorlinski SQL Server Escalation Services Problem Customer observes high latency in SQL Server 2005 Merge replication. In sysprocesses you see that Merge agents are being blocked by another...

Follow-up Customer Questions on Peer-2-Peer Replication Chris Skorlinski Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Services I meet with a customer today planning for Peer-2-Peer Replication in conjunction with Microsoft Amalga , our Hospital Information System...

Helpful References and Links on Setting up Merge Web Synchronization Sateesh Yele Microsoft SQL Server Support Below is a list of self-help resources or this scenario. These resources are used by Microsoft SQL Replication Support Engineers during an Advisory...

Slides from SQL Saturday #41 Talk "Introduction to Change Data Capture" Chris Skorlinski Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Services Attached to this BLOG are the slides I used for my talk on Change Data Capture. The talk provided an over of CDC, code...

April 24th SQLSaturday Workshop in Atlanta GA on CDC and Merge Replication If you’re in the Atlanta, GA area Saturday April 24th, check out SQLSaturday. Its a great way to meet with other SQL Server professionals listen to some great presentations. Some...