Merge Replication: Missing rows at Subscriber with no conflicts

Hi all,

We are using a mix of SQL 2005 and 2000 servers and our "main" database server is running SQL 2005 x64 (SP2 ver. 3042).

Our system has run perfectly for months, then subsequent to an SP2 update we are seeing several instances where the data record counts are different for several tables among all the servers.

We are using Merge Replication, with no filters and published every 2 minutes.

Any ideas?

TIA,

Michael

I have seen this before with SQL 2000 replication. It not uncommon especially for very high volumn data transfer. Unfortunately I cannot tell you what the issue is or why it happens.

Although I would advise that a 2 minute sync interval is probibly not useful for you at all. You should run the merge agent continuiously with the -continuious flag if you want it to sync this often.

I would change to continuious, reconcile the data then hopefully it doesnt happen again. If you can you would be better moving to an all SQL 2005 scenario.

Martin

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