Issue – Where Replication Agents job Locate Resolution – While troubleshooting replication issue; it’s always good to know which server have which job. In transnational replication scenario. Snapshot agent Log Reader agent Distribution agent If Publisher and Distribution Server is same and you have configured Push subscription; all the job reside Publisher\Distributor server. If Publisher and… Read More Replication – Agents Job Location

Issue – Replication Monitor could not open the Detail Window. Cause – When you have SQL 2012 as a Publisher and distribution as SQL 2014 and when you try to launch replication monitor through SQL 2014; you will get this error message. Resolution – Launch replication monitor through SQL 2012 i.e. Publisher    

Issue – Replication Log Reader agent was failing with below error messages. 2018-04-24 19:33:07.854 Status: 32768, code: 53044, text: ‘Validating publisher’. 2018-04-24 19:33:07.873 Status: 4096, code: 20024, text: ‘Initializing’. 2018-04-24 19:33:07.873 The agent is running. Use Replication Monitor to view the details of this agent session. 2018-04-24 19:33:07.879 Status: 0, code: 20011, text: ‘The process… Read More Replication Issue – Cannot execute as the database principal because the principal “dbo” does not exist, this type of principal cannot be impersonated, or you do not have permission.