Wednesday 8 April 2020

How to Add Article (Order_table_2) again in Transnational Replication and snapshot agent should not run for all the existing articles



Issue 1: Subscriber end article rows are more than Publisher, how to fix this issue.

Issue 2: There are two tables (Order_table_1 & Order_table_2) And user want and in both table column name “Status” should have same value. Publisher side it is showing same value for both tables but in subscriber side it is having the issue. Where the Order_table_2 have correct values for status column.

Issue 3: How to remove existing article (Order_table) from transactional replication and ADD Article (Coustomer_table) again but should not run snapshot agent for all the existing articles.

Issue 4: How to Add Article (Order_table_1) again but should not run snapshot agent for all the existing articles.

Solution:

1.     Data validation: Run the query on Publisher end and subscriber end to find out the data mis-match between two table
--Run below query total count on publisher and both subscriber.
SELECT S.STATUS ,P.STATUS, * FROM Order_table_1 S
INNER JOIN Order_table_2  P
ON S.ID=P.ID
WHERE S.STATUS <> P.STATUS

       --Run below query total count on on publisher and both subscriber.
         select count(*) from [dbo].Order_table_1

2.      Check the immediate_sync , allow_anonymous values. By default these value set as 1 and we need to make them 0

       --Ran this on publisher server
          sp_helppublication


        -- Or ran this on Distributor server
            select immediate_sync,allow_anonymous,* from distribution.dbo.MSpublications

3.     Set immediate_sync , allow_anonymous as 0 (Zero)

--Run on your publisher database to change the value as 0 for immediate_sync,allow_anonymous

EXEC sp_changepublication
@publication = 'IND-Replication',
@property = 'allow_anonymous' ,
@value = 'false'
GO
EXEC sp_changepublication
@publication = 'IND-Replication',
@property = 'immediate_sync' ,
@value = 'false'
GO

4.     To remove existing Article from replication
A.       Go Publisher server à Open Replication à Go to replication property à Click on Articles à Uncheck the Article which you want to remove à Click on OK.
B.       Now connect to Subscriber server à Select the replication database  à Drop the article which you want to remove from replication.

5.     To add Article in existing replication

--Run below query to add article on replication database< Display_Expand_database> at publisher end, Make sure change the @publication value, @article and @source_ object

USE Display_Expand_database
EXEC sp_addarticle
@publication = IND-Replication',
@article = Order_table_1,
@source_object = Order_table_1

6.     To Add subscription on subscriber end in existing replication

--Run below query at publisher end to add subscription on replication, Make sure change the @publication value, @destination_db.
Note- We have two subscriber so below script is for both subscriber.

EXEC sp_addsubscription
@publication = IND-Replication',
@subscriber = 'IND_SQLDB01',
@destination_db = 'Display_Expand_database'

EXEC sp_addsubscription
@publication = 'IND-Replication',
@subscriber = 'IND_SQLDB02',
@destination_db = 'Display_Expand_database'



7.     Now open the replication monitor à expend “My Publisher” Click on Replication Name  à Click on “Agent” Tab à See the job name as “Snapshot agent” à Right click on “Snapshot agent” and click on “Start Agentà See the Last action (It will show the progress of snapshot for only Newly added article.)



8.     Data validation: Now match the total row count and check the mis-match values. It will be same now on publisher and both subscriber end.

       --Run below query total count on on publisher and both subscriber.
select count(*) from [dbo].Order_table_1

--Run below query total count on publisher and both subscriber.
SELECT S.STATUS ,P.STATUS, * FROM Order_table_1 S
INNER JOIN Order_table_2  P
ON S.ID=P.ID
WHERE S.STATUS <> P.STATUS