• Kendal Van Dyke (3/30/2010)


    David,

    Can you elaborate on the following statement you made:

    the number of records in the MSRepl_transactions table is likely to be very high and once it has gone beyond a certain size

    and provide guidance on what that "certain size" is and how someone knows if they've exceeded it?

    Also, do you have any suggestions for other steps that someone should take to optimize their existing distribution database before deciding that it's time to create a new one?

    Kendal Van Dyke

    @sqldba

    we're having this problem. first thing is we're looking to upgrade to 32GB of RAM soon on the distributor. we're at 14GB now and seeing memory pressure sometimes.

    otherwise best thing is to buy a lot of disk and split everything up on it's own RAID5 volumes. with HP servers, the Proliant G6 supports up to 16 drives in a server