Those activities are not replicated. It would be...

Elliott Whitlow (12/17/2010)

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That 14hours is probably better than it would be if it was 32-32..

Are the database files pre-sized? If not then it will spend a lot of time...

If it is busy and you have memory limitations already then that would certainly impact things. Do you know how long the copy process is taking vs the applying of...

Would Change Data Capture work? Curious.

Jack Corbett (12/17/2010)

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Side note. Anyone ever had an MRI? I was scheduled to have one yesterday afternoon and, being a bit claustrophobic, the doctor prescribed Xanax for...

Couldn't you just query their data and pull the most recent record prior to the event you are interested in?

Oh, you would run that query on the distribution database on the distributor. You would also find the job there.

It looks like you have a distribution agent that is running against...

As Andy already mentioned, missing indexes in the graphical plan is a huge plus. They are usually pretty accurate or pretty close making it pretty helpful.

I will have to...

Unfortunately no I don't. Merge replication is by nature more expensive than other types of replication. Still viable is using transactional with updateable subscriptions. That however doesn't allow for the...

Yeah, I will have to play with it a bit more as well. Also want to play with a tally table version to see what it does.

One other thing...

sharad-1144828 (12/16/2010)

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Hi All,

I have 3 servers and want to apply merge replication for this as A to B to C to A.

Can some one please guide me how to implement...

Great! If you have time reply back with what you find helpful as it may be good information for the future.

Hey Jeff - I certainly like that function better than most that I have seen and used. One question I do have though; have you noticed that it always seems...

If you do have a tape backup you can still take a log backup and do a point in time restore. Again, all hinging on the full backup existing.

Honestly...