When administering Merge Replication, sometimes we need to mark foreign key constraints NOT FOR REPLICATION.  In some cases, we might require replication agent activity to be treated differently from user activity since we cannot guarantee the order of changes that are replicated.  To be more specific, sometimes parent and child… Read more

Brad McGehee over at SQL Aloha posted his July Question: What Do You Think are the Most Common DBA Pain Points and it got me thinking about my DBA career and some of the pain points I’ve experienced with SQL Server Replication.

One of the biggest problems I face is… Read more