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Free Windows/SQL Perfmon Counter poster from Quest Software Chris Skorlinski SQL Server Escalation Services The Quest Software team did a great job building a SQL Server Perfmon Counters Poster .  This poster provides description of key Windows/SQL...

Troubleshooting SQL Server error “The operating system returned error 1453” Chris Skorlinski Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Services I worked on an interesting SQL startup problem today.  I don’t see this error very often, but since there wasn’t...

Lock Timeout in Replication Create Publication Chris Skorlinski Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Services Normally, the Snapshot create publication script only needs to lock the table long enough to generate a Create Table script for the Distribution Agent...

How to: Initialize a Transactional Subscription from a Backup with Multiple Backup Files Chris Skorlinski Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Services Below is a slight modification to the How to: Initialize a Transactional Subscription from a Backup...

How to move MDF/NDF for a Replicated Database Chris Skorlinski Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Services Here is another customer question about Replication I thought worth sharing. I am using SQL Server 2008 64 bits. I have to change the location of the...

Adding node to SQL 2008 cluster does not require SQL restart. Chris Skorlinski SQL Server Escalation Services We had this question about SQL 2008 virtual cluster.  Question:  Is it possible to add node in existing SQL Server 2008 or 2008 R2...

Unexplained Latency in the Distribution Agent using Named Pipe Chris Skorlinski Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Services. Just wanted to give a heads up about a SQL Replication Distribution Agent Latency problem we observed today.  The Distribution...

  Welcome to Camp GeekaLot Camp for SQL DBAs to Share Tips and Practices Chris Skorlinski Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Services I recently hosted a SQL DBA best practices discussion with the Charlotte SQL Server Users Group.  It was a lot...

ORA-01830: date format picture ends before converting entire input string Chris Skorlinski Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Services Microsoft SQL Server has the ability to REPLICATE data changes to Oracle.  We see more and more customers migrating...

How to cleanup Replication Bits Chris Skorlinski Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Services For SQL 2005 and SQL 2008 the sp_removedbreplication stored procedure works great for removing the SQL Replication bits from a database.  SQL 2000 has an older...

Chris Skorlinski Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Services A customer called today about an unexplained slowness in SQL Server 2008 on Windows 2008 R2. All SQL data looked great, no blocking, no obvious IO bottlenecks, just overall slow performance...

Chris Skorlinski Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Services SQL Server Transaction LogReader Agent timeout executing sp_replcmds occurs most often when a large transactions has been written to the Published database transaction log, or there are a large...

Chris Skorlinski Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Services A customer recently noticed their Published database transaction log would continue to grow until they backed up the Distribution database.  DBCC OPENTRAN() Oldest distributed LSN    ...

Chris Skorlinski Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Services Latency problems are often caused when series of transactions are trying to move a large batch of commands from the Publisher to the Distributor to the Subscribers.   The queries below show...

Introduction to Change Data Capture Chris Skorlinski Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Service This posting will be updated with links that provide an introduction to Change Data Capture. Some of the material included here is from my www.SQLSaturday...

Walk through of Microsoft SQL Server Change Data Capture Chris Skorlinski Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Services This sample script walks through some of the Microsoft Change Data Captures functions.  Copy and past the script into SQL Server Management...

How to find “waiting” STATEMENT in Microsoft SQL Server stored procedure Content provided by: Ajith Krishnan Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Services I was working with Ajith the other day to track down a blocking problem for a customer.  We know...

On Saturday, Oct 2, 2010 I’ll be attending SQLSaturday #48 in Columbia, SC as both a Presenter and an Attendee. I’ve presented workshops on high-availability, Change Data Capture, using SSIS for Data Warehouse loading, and Replication. In Columbia, I...

How to synchronize SQL Express subscribers using VBA Chris Skorlinski SQL Server Escalation Services Question to research:  How can subscribers with just VBA do an "on demand synchronization"?   Background:  SQL 2008 R2 Standard...

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Technorati Tags: Performance How to monitor the Health of SQL Server Replication Chris Skorlinski Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Services Today someone asked me how to “roll their own” SQL Replication Monitor to keep an eye on the health of SQL Server...

SQL Server 2008/R2 Audit Triggers for Change Data Capture changes_tables table -- -- FILENAME: CDCchange_tablesAudit.SQL -- -- AUTHOR:  Chris Skorlinski -- -- DESCRIPTION: SQL Server 2008/R2 Audit Triggers for Change Data Capture changes_tables table...

Welcome to SQLSaturday #46 -- Raleigh NC -- 18 Sep Chris Skorlinski Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Services If you are in the Raleigh, North Carolina area on Saturday September 18th plan on attending SQLSaturday.  This is a great opportunity to...

SQL Replication Agent will RETRY for 4085 Years Chris Skorlinski Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Services. Have you noticed the SQL Server Agent Job RETRY  is set to 2147?  Well it is not, the dialog window just cuts off the rest of the digits...

Tips for troubleshooting SQL Agent Error: 15281 Chris Skorlinski Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Services We encountered an interesting problem the other day I thought I would post on ReplTalk.  Customer call when they noticed the SQL Server Agent...