Reinitilaize without re-sending the data.

Hi.
I have a subsription that needs to be reinitialized because it has been
marked as inactive. Instead of reinitializing and then have to transfer
a new snapshot, that would caus all sorts of key violations, i would
like to do the following.
1.Drop the subscription.
2.Add subscription with option that the subscribers has the schema and
data.
3.Copy the pending transactions
The problem is, when you drop the subscription, the pending
transactions are truncated, so the question is.
How can i copy all the commands from the distribution agent, that is
supposed to go to a specific subscriber, so that i can just connect to
the subscriber and run them manually after i have set up the new
subscription?
Also have a second question.
We don't have a lot of changes, and it seems like having the log reader
running contuniously is not neccessary. Can i just change the log
reader job to run on a reccuring schedule with Enterprise Manager?
Than you!
The simplest solution is to drop the subscription, use DataCompare or
TABLEDIFF to sync up the tables then do a nosync initialization.
Generally the log-reader is set to run continuously. There are 2 main
reasons I can think why this is so - lower latency and minimise the size of
the transaction log (the log can't be truncated until it's been read by the
logreader).
Cheers,
Paul Ibison SQL Server MVP, www.replicationanswers.com .
|||Do a no-sync subscription. Then run a validation to determine which tables
are out of sync. Then it is a matter of getting these back in
synchronization. You can use tablediff or RedGates data compare for this.
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<jostein.solstad@.gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi.
> I have a subsription that needs to be reinitialized because it has been
> marked as inactive. Instead of reinitializing and then have to transfer
> a new snapshot, that would caus all sorts of key violations, i would
> like to do the following.
> 1.Drop the subscription.
> 2.Add subscription with option that the subscribers has the schema and
> data.
> 3.Copy the pending transactions
> The problem is, when you drop the subscription, the pending
> transactions are truncated, so the question is.
> How can i copy all the commands from the distribution agent, that is
> supposed to go to a specific subscriber, so that i can just connect to
> the subscriber and run them manually after i have set up the new
> subscription?
> Also have a second question.
> We don't have a lot of changes, and it seems like having the log reader
> running contuniously is not neccessary. Can i just change the log
> reader job to run on a reccuring schedule with Enterprise Manager?
> Than you!
>

Reinitializing Push subscription after it expired in Transactional Replication

I am using SQL 2000. How can I get my transactional replication reinitialized after it has failed with several attempts.

I know one way of doing it through enterprise manager and specifying the subscription to reinitialize. But this will apply the snapshot and will take long time.

Is there a fast way of doing it?

-Nipul

A reinitialize requires reapplying the snapshot. Can you be more clear what you're trying to accomplish? I think what you want to do is just restart the distribution agent, does this work?

Reinitializing a subscription

Win 2000 & SQL 2000 SP3
I have a publication that wants to be reinitialized (The
subscription(s) have been marked inactive and must be reinitialized.
NoSync subscriptions will need to be dropped and recreated.). When I
created the push subscription, I did it NoSync, so I know I have to
drop and recreate it. But, my question is this....How can I prevent
from loosing the transactions that are pending? If I drop the
subscription & recreate it, the pending transactions will be
lost...right?!?!? I need these. HELP
TIA,
Larry...
Yes you are correct. The best approach to this sort of problem is to use
sp_browsereplcmds like this
sp_browsereplcmds @.publisher_database_id = 7,@.results_table =
'results_table'
where @.publisher_database_id is your publication database ID.
Then you have the commands stored in your results table. You can run these
on your subscriber. You can also use @.xact_seqno_start to define a start id.
Hilary Cotter
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> Win 2000 & SQL 2000 SP3
> I have a publication that wants to be reinitialized (The
> subscription(s) have been marked inactive and must be reinitialized.
> NoSync subscriptions will need to be dropped and recreated.). When I
> created the push subscription, I did it NoSync, so I know I have to
> drop and recreate it. But, my question is this....How can I prevent
> from loosing the transactions that are pending? If I drop the
> subscription & recreate it, the pending transactions will be
> lost...right?!?!? I need these. HELP
> TIA,
> Larry...
>

reinitialized subscription - more info

Running - Win 2K / SQL 2K
I am constantly, once a week or so,getting an error on a
transactional publication that I have...
The subscription(s) have been marked inactive and must be
reinitialized. NoSync subscriptions will need to be
dropped and recreated.
This publication is set up to be continious and is
checked daily to verify it is running. I will come in
one morning and there will be an error. There are 15
remote locations using a transactional/continous
publication to move data to the main office.
How can I prevent this from happening?
What is causing this?
Is there some logging option I can turn on to see more
info about the transactions?
Larry....
By default is a publisher and subscriber have not "talked to" each other for
14 days the subscriber is marked inactive and the subscription may be
dropped. You must reinitialize, regenerate and redistribute the snapshot to
clear this condition.
You can set the interval by right clicking on your publication, selecting
properties and in the subscription expiration section, set a long expiration
value.
I normally run scripts that detect whether the distribution agent has
replicated a transaction to the subscriber in the last 24 hours, and if not,
it raises an alert which causes operations to be paged.
This raises the visibility of these errors.
Hilary Cotter
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"larry..." <anonymous@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Running - Win 2K / SQL 2K
> I am constantly, once a week or so,getting an error on a
> transactional publication that I have...
> The subscription(s) have been marked inactive and must be
> reinitialized. NoSync subscriptions will need to be
> dropped and recreated.
> This publication is set up to be continious and is
> checked daily to verify it is running. I will come in
> one morning and there will be an error. There are 15
> remote locations using a transactional/continous
> publication to move data to the main office.
> How can I prevent this from happening?
> What is causing this?
> Is there some logging option I can turn on to see more
> info about the transactions?
> Larry....
>

reinitialized subscription

Running - Win 2K / SQL 2K
I am constantly getting an error on a merge
publication/subscription that I have...
The subscription(s) have been marked inactive and must be
reinitialized. NoSync subscriptions will need to be
dropped and recreated.
How can I prevent this from happening?
What is causing this?
Larry...
you normally get this error when your subscribers haven't connected to your
publisher within 14 days for transactional and merge publications.
The way to prevent this is to ensure your subscriber connects to your
publisher within this period.
Exactly how frequently are you getting this error?
"larry" <anonymous@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Running - Win 2K / SQL 2K
> I am constantly getting an error on a merge
> publication/subscription that I have...
> The subscription(s) have been marked inactive and must be
> reinitialized. NoSync subscriptions will need to be
> dropped and recreated.
> How can I prevent this from happening?
> What is causing this?
> Larry...
|||.....Exactly how frequently are you getting this error?
Hilary,
I get this on one of my continous transactional
subscriptions once every couple of weeks. I check
replication every day and in fact, the SQL server agent
gets restarted every night @. 2:00 am.
Larry...