How do you create a transactional subscription in an always environment?
How to Create Transactional Subscription in an Always On Environment
- Before creating the subscription, add the subscriber database to the appropriate Always On availability group.
- Add the subscriber’s availability group Listener as a linked server to all nodes of the availability group.
How to set publisher, distributor, and subscriber in AlwaysOn?
The steps below walk through setting SQL Server 2016 Replication Publisher, Distributor, and Subscriber each in an Always On Availability Group with one set of replicas residing one 1 subnet and 2 nd set on another subnet simulating 2 different data centers (Pub1, Dist1, Sub2) <–> (Pub2, Dist2, Sub2).
How to maintain an always on publication database?
Maintaining an Always On publication database is basically the same as maintaining a standard publication database, with the following considerations: Administration must occur at the primary replica host. Replication Monitor always displays publication information under the original publisher.
What to do when Publisher Database is removed from availability group?
If the publication database fails over from the original publisher to a replica and the database is removed from the availability group primary replica, use the stored procedure sp_redirect_publisher to explicitly redirect the original publisher to the new publisher. The database will be left in the recovering state and must be restored.
How to create a publisher database in SQL Server?
Select the first option i.e. ‘SQL03V’ will act as its own Distributor; SQL Server will create a distribution database and log and click Next. In case if your SQL Server Agent service is not set to start automatically, you will see the below window that asks you to select the SQL Server Agent startup behavior.