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ksr39
Posting Yak Master

193 Posts

Posted - 2012-02-21 : 07:19:55
Hi Experts,

I need a small help & suggestions on Replication. As I wanted to remove Replication completely from one of my servers. So, I did the below process to remove it. I have no idea whether it’s the right way to do or not, Please help me in doing it in a process.

I have disabled all the replication related jobs in both publication server databse side and subscriber side
after that deleted the publication and subscriber manually
but thats not the good way
some of the replication related tables will not remove if we do that
so how can we remove replication completely
including distributor and belongings


Thank you In Advance.

tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess

38200 Posts

Posted - 2012-02-21 : 09:35:29
Try sp_removedbreplication for each publisher database. For the distributor, use sp_dropdistributor.

See this if that doesn't help: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324401

Tara Kizer
Microsoft MVP for Windows Server System - SQL Server
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ksr39
Posting Yak Master

193 Posts

Posted - 2012-02-21 : 14:57:46
Thank you Kizer
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tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess

38200 Posts

Posted - 2012-02-21 : 15:16:53
You're welcome, glad to help.

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ksr39
Posting Yak Master

193 Posts

Posted - 2012-02-22 : 09:16:06
Hi Kizer,

we have configured the replication again and after configuring that it shows that it is excallent. but the data from publisher is not getting updated into the subscriber, i have no idea where im getting problem. i can see all the publisher, distributer and subscriber in good condition. please can you help me in finding the problem and the solution for the same.
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russell
Pyro-ma-ni-yak

5072 Posts

Posted - 2012-02-22 : 12:36:54
Did you run the snapshot agent?
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ksr39
Posting Yak Master

193 Posts

Posted - 2012-02-22 : 12:59:22
Hi Russell,
Yes i did and we configured the transactional replication.
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russell
Pyro-ma-ni-yak

5072 Posts

Posted - 2012-02-22 : 13:59:18
What's the status of the log reader agent?

Try inserting a tracer token.
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ksr39
Posting Yak Master

193 Posts

Posted - 2012-02-22 : 15:43:15
it was running fine and shows the connection is excallent for all
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russell
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5072 Posts

Posted - 2012-02-22 : 16:17:29
Did you insert a tracer token?
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pollostar
Starting Member

3 Posts

Posted - 2012-03-15 : 08:47:06
This procedure will be done in 3 phase:
1. Remove subscriber.
go to replication to select publications to select publisher and you will get the subscriber and delete them.
2. Remove publisher.
go to replication to select publications to select publisher and delete.
3. Remove distributor.
go server property and select replication and select 'Disable' tab this will get you a wizard and go there and disable distributor it will drop the distribution database.

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