Tuesday, March 27, 2012

distrib.exe & logread.exe

Win & SQL 2K
What is distrib.exe? I have it running 15 times in my
task manager. It this a prog that distributes(pushes)
transactions to subscribers? Is this an SQL thing or
should I go look else where.
Also logread.exe is running 3 times. Is this anothere
SQL thing?
Larry...
Larry,
these are the 'engines' behind replication. When BOL talks about the
distribution agent, there is a SQL Agent job whose second step starts the
executable distrib.exe. For the logreader it is logread.exe. In
troubleshooting it is common practice to start the distrib.exe executable
from the commandline, especially when dealing with MSDE where there aren't
the graphical interfaces.
HTH,
Paul Ibison
(recommended sql server 2000 replication book:
http://www.nwsu.com/0974973602p.html)
|||thanks for the info Paul!!!

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