Other Specialized Agents
In Figure 19.19, you can see that several other agents have been set up to do house cleaning around the replication configuration:
• Agent history clean up: Distribution—This agent clears out agent history from the distribution database every 10 minutes (by default). Depending on the size of the distribution, you might want to vary the frequency of this agent.
• Distribution clean up: Distribution—This agent clears out replicated transactions from the distribution database every 72 hours by default. This agent is used for snapshot and transactional publications only. If the volume of transactions is high, the frequency of this agent should be adjusted downward so you don’t have too large of a distribution database. However, ...
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