Making replication more reliable

We have about 90 sites doing merge replication with pull subscriptions over
a DSL VPN.
Replication often stalls following a dropped connection. Normally,
restarting SQL Server Agent at the subsciber gets things moving again.
Any good suggestions on a way to a perform this restart. We can't really do
it from within our user application as they don't have sufficient privilege.
Any easy way to do it from the publisher site?
Also are we making things worse for ourselves by running the merge agent
continuously?
Tony Toker
Data Identic Ltd.
either schedule your agents to run every 10 minutes, or set up your job so
that on job failure it wraps around and starts job step 1 again.
Hilary Cotter
Looking for a book on SQL Server replication?
http://www.nwsu.com/0974973602.html
"Tony Toker" <xyzzy@.identic.co.uk> wrote in message
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> We have about 90 sites doing merge replication with pull subscriptions
over
> a DSL VPN.
> Replication often stalls following a dropped connection. Normally,
> restarting SQL Server Agent at the subsciber gets things moving again.
> Any good suggestions on a way to a perform this restart. We can't really
do
> it from within our user application as they don't have sufficient
privilege.
> Any easy way to do it from the publisher site?
> Also are we making things worse for ourselves by running the merge agent
> continuously?
> Tony Toker
> Data Identic Ltd.
>
|||Thanks for the tip.
Some of the agents don't actually fail, but run indefinitely.
I'll look at checking connectivity then running replmerge, or the activex
controls (which aren't currently deployed) from our application to synch
when necessary.
This will be a stupid question whatever the answer but would replmerge work
with a push subscription, ie can you initiate synchronization of a push
subscription at the subscriber?
Thanks for all your help on here, you need to get that book out and start
earning for your advice!
Tony
"Hilary Cotter" <hilaryk@.att.net> wrote in message
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> either schedule your agents to run every 10 minutes, or set up your job so
> that on job failure it wraps around and starts job step 1 again.
> --
> Hilary Cotter
> Looking for a book on SQL Server replication?
> http://www.nwsu.com/0974973602.html
>
> "Tony Toker" <xyzzy@.identic.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:cgi1vo$p1d$1$830fa795@.news.demon.co.uk...
> over
> do
> privilege.
>