Looking for ways to do things more quickly and efficiently, I thought I would talk a little bit about sp_addscriptexec and how it can be leveraged to expedite the process of executing SQL scripts in a replication topology.  By creating and saving a SQL script on a publisher, it can… Read more

This is probably a rare occurrence — but I've noticed that data validation for an article with 10 billion or more rows will fail due to an arithmetic overflow error in sp_MSarticle_validation.

Data validation for a specific article in a transactional publication is done using sp_article_validation which in turn… Read more