Comments on: SQL Replication demystified

By: Priyantha Perera

Priyantha Perera — Fri, 11 Dec 2015 22:04:24 +0000

How do I determine the agent for a specific replication job?

By: tanya

tanya — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 18:33:21 +0000

do I do a snapshot or just go to peer to peer

By: tanya

tanya — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 18:32:14 +0000

how do I set up peer to peer replication for 2012

By: sibs

sibs — Fri, 05 Jul 2013 06:07:50 +0000

i have 3 Server using Sql Server 2008 R2 Standard edition located in 3 different sites and didnt use domain. i want to replicate each transaction from these server to my HQ server that also using Sql Server 2008 R2 standard.
my question is, is it possible to replicate in non-domain environment?
if the answer is yes, how the server can communicate in different network as the replication cant use Ip Address as their communication?

By: Rob Farley

Rob Farley — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 02:35:49 +0000

Hi Dave,
It should be able to resume. It will be helpful to see the actual errors.
Maybe drop me an email and I’ll see what I can do. rob at lobsterpot.com.au is best.
Rob

By: dave pint

dave pint — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 23:30:10 +0000

thanks all for the great info.
hope this is the place for my question.
should peer to peer transactional replication ( with updates from peers enabled ) withstand network disconnects easily ?
we are using it in an application, set up sqlprime as the primary and sqlsecond as the failover server
all goes well until we test the redundancy by disconnecting the network on sqlprime .
the app find the failover, writes data but when sqlprime ( primary server) comes back, all replication is stopped with strange error ( mainly directing to login failures ( which are bogus as passwords did not change. )
so , are we testing something this setup should not stand ? ( network interruptions ? )
thanks
dave.

By: Brandon Williams

Brandon Williams — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:23:47 +0000

This one is good for beginners to intermediate: Pro SQL Server 2008 Replication (http://www.amazon.com/Server-2008-Replication-Experts-Voice/dp/143021807X)

By: Francesco Quaratino

Francesco Quaratino — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 13:12:06 +0000

Thanks @Scott & @John. I've never read that book but I knew already it was a really good one :) about guides, I've found this quite usefull "Achieving Excellence in Designing and Maintaining SQL Server Transactional Replication Environments" (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj215849.aspx)

By: John Sansom

John Sansom — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 13:28:22 +0000

@Francesco - There's an excellent chapter, by Hilary Cotter in the first SQL Server MVP Deep Dives book, that looks at performance tuning Transactional Replication topologies. It contains the best (IMHO) explanation of how to tune the performance of the various Replication agents. (http://www.manning.com/nielsen/) For general replication performance and tuning knowledge, see the REPLTLK blog on MSDN (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/repltalk/) There are some replication performance tuning guides out there too, buried in various blogs however, I don't have the references to hand. I'll see what I can dig up....

By: Scott Crosby

Scott Crosby — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 19:18:52 +0000

For more SQL replication info checkout Paul Ibison’s excellent site: http://www.replicationanswers.com
Hilary Cotter’s SQL 2000 replication book was invaluable to me, a possible update required?
Rgds,
Scott