Monitoring Replication

After replication is up and running, it is important for you to monitor the replication and see how things are running. You can do this in several ways, including SQL statements, SQL Enterprise Monitor, and Windows NT Performance Monitor. You are interested in the agent's successes and failures, the speed at which replication is done, and the synchronization state of tables involved in replication. Other things to be watched are the sizes of the distribution database, the growth of the subscriber databases, and the available space on the distribution server's snapshot working directory.

SQL Statements

One way to look at the replication configuration and do things like validate row counts is to use various replication stored ...

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