Missing Transactions - REPOSTED.
Larry
the hopes someone else will have some insight.
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SQL 2k & Win 2k
I have a server(S1) that has a trans. publication of 4 tables. I have
another server (S2) that has a subscription to the publication on S1. This
works fine. The dB Names are different from S1 to S2.
Now, S2 has a merge publication of the same 4 tables to several remote
locations. I have a filter in the publication on each of the the four tables
that filters on a numeric field (ex. loc = 19). If I reinitialize the
subscription, only the data that meets the filter clause is populated on the
subscriber. The dB Names are the same from S2 to the remote locations.
SO here is the problem.....When data is inserted into S1, it makes it to S2,
but not to the remote locations. When the merge agent runs, after the data
is on S2, the message is 'No data needed to be merged.'
If I do a validation, on S2, I get the error... Article 'TableName' failed
data validation (rowcount only) this message appears for each table.
If I insert a row manually into one of the tables on S1 & run the
distribution & merge agents manually, the row makes it to the final
destination, well on the one test I did.
At the time of this original post, the subscriptions were 'push' from S2 to
the remote locations (S2 pushes to Remote sites). I deleted the push
subscriptions and made them 'pull' from the remote locations (Remote pulls
from S2) and I still having this problem.
TIA,
Larry...
Paul Ibison
How about if you add a row manually to S2, does it work
then? If it does, then delete this row, run the merge
agent then add the same row on S1 and see if it
propagates through. Also, check that when the
transactional replication puts the record onto S2 is
there a resulting corresponding record in
msmerge_contents on s2? Finally please check the conflict
tables to confirm there's nothing there.
Rgds,
Paul Ibison SQL Server MVP, www.replicationanswers.com
(recommended sql server 2000 replication book:
http://www.nwsu.com/0974973602p.html)
Larry
Thanks for you response. To answer your questions.....
I reinitialized the data to make sure everything was in sync. Then I
inserted a row into S2 and ran the merge agent and the row appeared on the
remote server. I delete the record from S2 and it was deleted off the remote
server.
Next I inserted a row, for the same remote location in to S1, ran the agents
(trans on S1 & merge on the remote location and the row appeared. The delete
worked fine also.
Next I ran my app that inserts data in to S1. A total of 263 rows were
inserted into 2 of the tables. I ran the trans agent on S1 and all the new
records were replicated to S2. Next I ran the merge agent on the remote
location and nothing.
I checked msmerge_contents before and after my app ran and it had the same
number of rows.
Finally, I repeated the insert as I did in the first paragraph and nothing.
As I was typing this message, I checked something. The remote locations did
not have merge replication enabled for the dB that was the subscriber. I
enabled them then delete the data from paragraph 3 (from above) and reran my
application and nothing.
I checked the conflict tables on the publisher (S2) and they were empty. Not
sure if they are suppose to exist, but there are no conflict tables on the
subscriber.
To make things even stranger, the changes being made on the remote
location/tables are making their way back to S2
TIA,
Larry....
Paul Ibison
somehow, your app is able to force the replication stored procedures to run
on the subscriber without firing the triggers. This shouldn't be possible!
I'd run profiler on the transactional subscriber to see how this is
occurring and to confirm that the merge triggers aren't firing.
Larry
I am at such a loss. The manual insertions are not working now either.
This is what is strange....the updates that are being done at remote
locations are making it back to S2, but nothing is making it from S2 to the
remote locations. In fact, I have having to reinitialize the data daily and
the inserts into S2 are not being sent to the remote locations unless the
snapshot agent is run.
I know in trans repl, there is a log reader that gets the pending
transactions. What does this in merge?? Could this be the problem??
I have disabled replication for this dB and deleted all the publications. I
recreated one and tried it as a push and a pull subscription and no luck.
HELP!!!!
Larry....
Paul Ibison
please script out your publications/subscriptions and
post them up here. Also, please confirm that you are
using the same service pack (sp3/a) on all 3 computers
involved.
Larry
The scrips below are from servers all running 8.00.534 (SP2)
~~~~
Transactional Publication & Subscription from S1 to S2
~~~~
-- Enabling the replication database
use master
GO
exec sp_replicationdboption @dbname = N'EDI_On_RouseMain', @optname =
N'publish', @value = N'true'
GO
use [EDI_On_RouseMain]
GO
-- Adding the transactional publication
exec sp_addpublication @publication = N'EDI_On_RouseMain', @restricted =
N'false', @sync_method = N'native', @repl_freq = N'continuous', @description
= N'Transactional publication of EDI_On_RouseMain database from Publisher
ROUSEMAIN.', @status = N'active', @allow_push = N'true', @allow_pull =
N'true', @allow_anonymous = N'true', @enabled_for_internet = N'false',
@independent_agent = N'true', @immediate_sync = N'true', @allow_sync_tran =
N'false', @autogen_sync_procs = N'false', @retention = 336,
@allow_queued_tran = N'false', @snapshot_in_defaultfolder = N'true',
@compress_snapshot = N'false', @ftp_port = 21, @ftp_login = N'anonymous',
@allow_dts = N'false', @allow_subscription_copy = N'false',
@add_to_active_directory = N'false', @logreader_job_name =
N'ROUSEMAIN-EDI_On_RouseMain-2'
exec sp_addpublication_snapshot @publication =
N'EDI_On_RouseMain',@frequency_type = 4, @frequency_interval = 1,
@frequency_relative_interval = 1, @frequency_recurrence_factor = 0,
@frequency_subday = 8, @frequency_subday_interval = 1, @active_start_date =
0, @active_end_date = 0, @active_start_time_of_day = 0,
@active_end_time_of_day = 235959, @snapshot_job_name =
N'ROUSEMAIN-EDI_On_RouseMain-EDI_On_RouseMain-2'
GO
exec sp_grant_publication_access @publication = N'EDI_On_RouseMain', @login
= N'BUILTIN\Administrators'
GO
exec sp_grant_publication_access @publication = N'EDI_On_RouseMain', @login
= N'distributor_admin'
GO
exec sp_grant_publication_access @publication = N'EDI_On_RouseMain', @login
= N'EDI'
GO
exec sp_grant_publication_access @publication = N'EDI_On_RouseMain', @login
= N'sa'
GO
-- Adding the transactional articles
exec sp_addarticle @publication = N'EDI_On_RouseMain', @article =
N'tbl880Detail', @source_owner = N'dbo', @source_object = N'tbl880Detail',
@destination_table = N'tbl880Detail', @type = N'logbased', @creation_script =
null, @description = null, @pre_creation_cmd = N'drop', @schema_option =
0x00000000000000F3, @status = 16, @vertical_partition = N'false', @ins_cmd =
N'CALL sp_MSins_tbl880Detail', @del_cmd = N'CALL sp_MSdel_tbl880Detail',
@upd_cmd = N'MCALL sp_MSupd_tbl880Detail', @filter = null, @sync_object =
null, @auto_identity_range = N'false'
GO
exec sp_addarticle @publication = N'EDI_On_RouseMain', @article =
N'tbl880DetailAllow', @source_owner = N'dbo', @source_object =
N'tbl880DetailAllow', @destination_table = N'tbl880DetailAllow', @type =
N'logbased', @creation_script = null, @description = null, @pre_creation_cmd
= N'drop', @schema_option = 0x00000000000000F3, @status = 16,
@vertical_partition = N'false', @ins_cmd = N'CALL
sp_MSins_tbl880DetailAllow', @del_cmd = N'CALL sp_MSdel_tbl880DetailAllow',
@upd_cmd = N'MCALL sp_MSupd_tbl880DetailAllow', @filter = null, @sync_object
= null, @auto_identity_range = N'false'
GO
exec sp_addarticle @publication = N'EDI_On_RouseMain', @article =
N'tbl880Header', @source_owner = N'dbo', @source_object = N'tbl880Header',
@destination_table = N'tbl880Header', @type = N'logbased', @creation_script =
null, @description = null, @pre_creation_cmd = N'drop', @schema_option =
0x00000000000000F3, @status = 16, @vertical_partition = N'false', @ins_cmd =
N'CALL sp_MSins_tbl880Header', @del_cmd = N'CALL sp_MSdel_tbl880Header',
@upd_cmd = N'MCALL sp_MSupd_tbl880Header', @filter = null, @sync_object =
null, @auto_identity_range = N'false'
GO
exec sp_addarticle @publication = N'EDI_On_RouseMain', @article =
N'tbl880HeaderAllow', @source_owner = N'dbo', @source_object =
N'tbl880HeaderAllow', @destination_table = N'tbl880HeaderAllow', @type =
N'logbased', @creation_script = null, @description = null, @pre_creation_cmd
= N'drop', @schema_option = 0x00000000000000F3, @status = 16,
@vertical_partition = N'false', @ins_cmd = N'CALL
sp_MSins_tbl880HeaderAllow', @del_cmd = N'CALL sp_MSdel_tbl880HeaderAllow',
@upd_cmd = N'MCALL sp_MSupd_tbl880HeaderAllow', @filter = null, @sync_object
= null, @auto_identity_range = N'false'
GO
-- Adding the transactional subscription
exec sp_addsubscription @publication = N'EDI_On_RouseMain', @article =
N'all', @subscriber = N'ROUSEONE', @destination_db = N'EDI', @sync_type =
N'automatic', @update_mode = N'read only', @offloadagent = 0,
@dts_package_location = N'distributor'
GO
~~~~
Merge publication and push subscription from S2 to Remote location #18
~~~~
-- Enabling the replication database
use master
GO
exec sp_replicationdboption @dbname = N'EDI', @optname = N'merge publish',
@value = N'true'
GO
use [EDI]
GO
-- Adding the merge publication
exec sp_addmergepublication @publication = N'EDI - 18', @description =
N'Merge publication of EDI database from Publisher ROUSEONE.', @retention =
14, @sync_mode = N'native', @allow_push = N'true', @allow_pull = N'true',
@allow_anonymous = N'true', @enabled_for_internet = N'false',
@centralized_conflicts = N'true', @dynamic_filters = N'false',
@snapshot_in_defaultfolder = N'true', @compress_snapshot = N'false',
@ftp_port = 21, @ftp_login = N'anonymous', @conflict_retention = 14,
@keep_partition_changes = N'true', @allow_subscription_copy = N'false',
@allow_synctoalternate = N'false', @add_to_active_directory = N'false',
@max_concurrent_merge = 0, @max_concurrent_dynamic_snapshots = 0
exec sp_addpublication_snapshot @publication = N'EDI - 18',@frequency_type =
4, @frequency_interval = 1, @frequency_relative_interval = 1,
@frequency_recurrence_factor = 0, @frequency_subday = 1,
@frequency_subday_interval = 5, @active_start_date = 0, @active_end_date = 0,
@active_start_time_of_day = 500, @active_end_time_of_day = 235959,
@snapshot_job_name = N'ROUSEONE-EDI-EDI - 18-95'
GO
exec sp_grant_publication_access @publication = N'EDI - 18', @login =
N'BUILTIN\Administrators'
GO
exec sp_grant_publication_access @publication = N'EDI - 18', @login =
N'distributor_admin'
GO
exec sp_grant_publication_access @publication = N'EDI - 18', @login = N'sa'
GO
-- Adding the merge articles
exec sp_addmergearticle @publication = N'EDI - 18', @article =
N'tbl880Detail', @source_owner = N'dbo', @source_object = N'tbl880Detail',
@type = N'table', @description = null, @column_tracking = N'true',
@pre_creation_cmd = N'drop', @creation_script = null, @schema_option =
0x000000000000CFF1, @article_resolver = null, @subset_filterclause = N'loc =
18', @vertical_partition = N'false', @destination_owner = N'dbo',
@auto_identity_range = N'false', @verify_resolver_signature = 0,
@allow_interactive_resolver = N'false', @fast_multicol_updateproc = N'true',
@check_permissions = 0
GO
exec sp_addmergearticle @publication = N'EDI - 18', @article =
N'tbl880DetailAllow', @source_owner = N'dbo', @source_object =
N'tbl880DetailAllow', @type = N'table', @description = null, @column_tracking
= N'true', @pre_creation_cmd = N'drop', @creation_script = null,
@schema_option = 0x000000000000CFF1, @article_resolver = null,
@subset_filterclause = N'loc = 18', @vertical_partition = N'false',
@destination_owner = N'dbo', @auto_identity_range = N'false',
@verify_resolver_signature = 0, @allow_interactive_resolver = N'false',
@fast_multicol_updateproc = N'true', @check_permissions = 0
GO
exec sp_addmergearticle @publication = N'EDI - 18', @article =
N'tbl880Header', @source_owner = N'dbo', @source_object = N'tbl880Header',
@type = N'table', @description = null, @column_tracking = N'true',
@pre_creation_cmd = N'drop', @creation_script = null, @schema_option =
0x000000000000CFF1, @article_resolver = null, @subset_filterclause = N'loc =
18', @vertical_partition = N'false', @destination_owner = N'dbo',
@auto_identity_range = N'false', @verify_resolver_signature = 0,
@allow_interactive_resolver = N'false', @fast_multicol_updateproc = N'true',
@check_permissions = 0
GO
exec sp_addmergearticle @publication = N'EDI - 18', @article =
N'tbl880HeaderAllow', @source_owner = N'dbo', @source_object =
N'tbl880HeaderAllow', @type = N'table', @description = null, @column_tracking
= N'true', @pre_creation_cmd = N'drop', @creation_script = null,
@schema_option = 0x000000000000CFF1, @article_resolver = null,
@subset_filterclause = N'loc = 18', @vertical_partition = N'false',
@destination_owner = N'dbo', @auto_identity_range = N'false',
@verify_resolver_signature = 0, @allow_interactive_resolver = N'false',
@fast_multicol_updateproc = N'true', @check_permissions = 0
GO
-- Adding the merge subscription
exec sp_addmergesubscription @publication = N'EDI - 18', @subscriber =
N'ROUSE18SERVER', @subscriber_db = N'EDI', @subscription_type = N'push',
@subscriber_type = N'local', @subscription_priority = 0.000000, @sync_type =
N'automatic', @frequency_type = 4, @frequency_interval = 1,
@frequency_relative_interval = 1, @frequency_recurrence_factor = 0,
@frequency_subday = 8, @frequency_subday_interval = 1, @active_start_date =
0, @active_end_date = 0, @active_start_time_of_day = 0,
@active_end_time_of_day = 235959, @enabled_for_syncmgr = N'false',
@offloadagent = 0, @use_interactive_resolver = N'false'
GO