Following steps happened when sql server starts… we can see that in error log::

1. Build of sql server and platform as Microsoft Sql server 2005 version. Edition on OS.

2. Windows process ID (kid):

3. Error log file location.

4. when last time sql was down and what spid…

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Its quite some time that I blog… but good news is I have some good stuff to blog on… so could be you will see some good blog in pipeline soon.

I blog on how to configure the replication here with commands and a separate blog for replication setup here Read more

Everyone who wants to know about how transaction replication works and how to improve the performance of transaction replication must read a great blog :

http://blogs.msdn.com/chrissk/archive/2009/05/25/transactional-replication-conversations.aspx

Summary:

log reader read the transactions(Changes) with sp_replcmds, for xp_replcmds.

then log reader writes into distributor database using sp_MSadd_replcmds

Distributor reads commands using sp_MSget_repl_commands… Read more