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jpotucek
Constraint Violating Yak Guru

273 Posts

Posted - 2012-06-28 : 15:27:29
I am running

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 - 9.00.4226.00 (X64) SQL Server 2005 Standard

I had a working transactional replication publication set up and it was working. I needed to restore the database that was acting as publisher and then change who the subscriber was so what I did was drop the subscription, drop the publication, restored the database (to a new name) and then rebuilt the publication and added the new subscriber.

I must have done something out of order because I created the new publication and then added the new subscriber and I cannot get it to work.

These are the type of errors I am getting in the log:
(note Server names have been changed to Serverx (Publisher) and ServerY (Suscriber))

Replication-Replication Transaction-Log Reader Subsystem: agent Serverx-1 failed. The process could not execute 'sp_repldone/sp_replcounters' on 'Serverx'.
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Replication-Replication Distribution Subsystem: agent Serverx-ServerY-8 failed. The process could not access database 'Test' on server 'ServerY

Basically TEST database is the OLD original subscriber and that database has been dropped.

I tried recreating it and that didn't help

now I am just attempting to drop the new publication that I created and it hangs and then crashes Management studio.

Not really sure where to go from here.. can anyone help?


jpotucek
Constraint Violating Yak Guru

273 Posts

Posted - 2012-06-28 : 16:46:41
I got this cleaned up by going in through Management studio and DISABLING Replication - this seemed to cleanup what I messed up and allowed me to re-do the whole thing.
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