Replication Error "memory mapped file read failed"

I was fighting an error that was very rare to appear. I originally put a post on a MS forum
http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.sqlserver.replication&tid=57229124-0a5a-4ec3-9055-a06b7869b872&cat=&lang=&cr=&sloc=&p=1
The...

Replication Error "field size too large"

Yesterday, I was fighting with an error I have never seen in the replication and not much info can be obtained via...

Difference between truncate and delete

This is an old topic and well documented, just google it and I believe you will get a lot,
However,...

Documentation Value Formula (Part II)

In my last post, I talked about what prompted me to give a deep thought to documentation work. Documentation, to me,...

Documentation Value Formula (Part I)

As a DBA, documentation work is unavoidable, we need to do documentation about things we have done, for example, what...

New DBA type: Test DBA

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SQL Server 2005 Replication bug?

Last week, in our production, we noticed some records are missing in the subscriber side while existing on the publisher...

Finding the relationship of a filegroup and a partition

The other day, I was trying to find out which partition is on which filegroup for a a partitioned table....

Another use of OpenRowSet()

From time to time, I need to dump out the result from a SP, such as sp_lock or sp_who.

Traditionally,...

Distributed Transaction Issue Msg 7391

I solved an "interesting" issue today. It is about distributed transaction. When I set up transactional replication with immediate updating...