Distribution DB Size was Increasing Suddenly

  • Need the checks for root cause and how can I reduce this size...its urgent

  • The usual reasons why the distribution DB gets big are because of the following.

    1. Your distribution clean up Agent is not running or throwing an error

    2. There are very old replication commands that could not be run.

    I would suggest you try to check the first common issue first.

    -Roy

  • Thanks for the reply

  • Thanks Roy

    My problem is like the log file of the Distribution DB was abnormally increased to 13 GB from 1.9 GB.

    How can I find the cause ???

    is this advisable to shrink the Distribution DB??

    I am using SQL 2k5 RTM Version .....

  • May be all the transactions are not completely copied to subscribers from distribution database.

    Check Clean up job running on distributor. Is this database in simple recovery model?

    You should be able to shrink the database with truncate only option.

    I would script out the replication, Drop and rebuild from script again.

    EnjoY!

    EnjoY!
  • Before you truncate anything, first check what recovery model your Distribution DB is

    -Roy

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