Replication & Reindex

I've read some varying opinions on this topic...
Is it a best practice to stop replicating a database during a maintenance window that is doing reindexing?
What is the effect of stopping / not stopping the distribution agent?
JUDE
I always prefer to avoid these jobs running concurrently. We reindex once a week so it's not too much of a big deal. The reason I separate the executions is to avoid blocking issues which will generally fail one of the jobs.
Cheers,
Paul Ibison SQL Server MVP, www.replicationanswers.com .
|||The merge replication metadata tables in SQL 2000 get highly fragmented. You should defragement them which is an online operation (minimal locking). If you do see this interfering with replication processing you might want to stop the jobs, but it should not be necessary.
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I've read some varying opinions on this topic...
Is it a best practice to stop replicating a database during a maintenance window that is doing reindexing?
What is the effect of stopping / not stopping the distribution agent?
JUDE
|||JUDE
"Jude" <judes@.email.uophx.edu> wrote in message news:%23o2Cx8ODHHA.4952@.TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
I've read some varying opinions on this topic...
Is it a best practice to stop replicating a database during a maintenance window that is doing reindexing?
What is the effect of stopping / not stopping the distribution agent?
JUDE

Replication

I have replication configured in an sql 2005 environment. I have
executed the wizard twice but each time the following maintenance jobs
are missing
Reinitialize subscriptions having data validation failures
Agent history clean up: distribution
Replication monitoring refresher for distribution.
Replication agents checkup
Distribution clean up: distribution
Expired subscription clean up
If someone can tell me what most be done to have these jobs created
or why the wizard failed to create them it would be a big help.What do you set up exactly? Distributor, Publisher and Subscriber? Also what
Replication method do you setup? Merge, Transactional, Snapshot?
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Ekrem Önsoy
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>I have replication configured in an sql 2005 environment. I have
> executed the wizard twice but each time the following maintenance jobs
> are missing
>
> Reinitialize subscriptions having data validation failures
> Agent history clean up: distribution
> Replication monitoring refresher for distribution.
> Replication agents checkup
> Distribution clean up: distribution
> Expired subscription clean up
> If someone can tell me what most be done to have these jobs created
> or why the wizard failed to create them it would be a big help.
>|||On Oct 8, 4:22 pm, Ekrem =D6nsoy <ek...@.btegitim.com> wrote:
> What do you set up exactly? Distributor, Publisher and Subscriber? Also w=hat
> Replication method do you setup? Merge, Transactional, Snapshot?
> --
> Ekrem =D6nsoy
> "NC3" <ncolem...@.yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>
> >I have replication configured in an sql 2005 environment. I have
> > executed the wizard twice but each time the following maintenance jobs
> > are missing
> > Reinitialize subscriptions having data validation failures
> > Agent history clean up: distribution
> > Replication monitoring refresher for distribution.
> > Replication agents checkup
> > Distribution clean up: distribution
> > Expired subscription clean up
> > If someone can tell me what most be done to have these jobs created
> > or why the wizard failed to create them it would be a big help.- Hide q=uoted text -
> - Show quoted text -
I have transactional replication configured using a remote distributor
to 'push' articles to a subscriber with ALL jobs configured to run at
the distributor.|||Hello,
What version of SQL 2005 you are using. As there was bug prior SP1. try
increasing the size of your model db try configuring again.
Thanks
Ajay Rengunthwar
MCDBA,MCTS
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On Oct 8, 4:22 pm, Ekrem Önsoy <ek...@.btegitim.com> wrote:
> What do you set up exactly? Distributor, Publisher and Subscriber? Also
> what
> Replication method do you setup? Merge, Transactional, Snapshot?
> --
> Ekrem Önsoy
> "NC3" <ncolem...@.yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:1191870323.081389.186990@.r29g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
>
> >I have replication configured in an sql 2005 environment. I have
> > executed the wizard twice but each time the following maintenance jobs
> > are missing
> > Reinitialize subscriptions having data validation failures
> > Agent history clean up: distribution
> > Replication monitoring refresher for distribution.
> > Replication agents checkup
> > Distribution clean up: distribution
> > Expired subscription clean up
> > If someone can tell me what most be done to have these jobs created
> > or why the wizard failed to create them it would be a big help.- Hide
> > quoted text -
> - Show quoted text -
I have transactional replication configured using a remote distributor
to 'push' articles to a subscriber with ALL jobs configured to run at
the distributor.