Point41 » replication http://www.point41.com IT Tips & Tricks Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:24:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Replicating large text / ntext fields in SQL Server 2005, 2008 http://www.point41.com/index.php/2009/08/09/replicating-large-text-ntext-fields-in-sql-server-2005-2008/ http://www.point41.com/index.php/2009/08/09/replicating-large-text-ntext-fields-in-sql-server-2005-2008/#comments Sun, 09 Aug 2009 15:24:40 +0000 admin http://www.point41.com/?p=37 Scenario – You have successfully setup replicated SQL Server databases with ntext fields and things were going fine initially. One day you get this error in the Event Log:

Server: Msg 7139, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
Length of text, ntext, or image data ([some number larger than 65536]) to be replicated exceeds configured maximum 65536.
The statement has been terminated.

This is happeming because Max Text Replication Size by default is set to 65536 and SQL Server has attempted to replicate a row where the data in a column is greater than this size. From the SQL Server Management Studio you can view and change this setting under Server Properties | Advanced dialog.

max text repl size

Increase this number to a higher value – up to 2147483647. Make this change on all SQL Servers involved in the replication. If you don’t like UI stuff, you can also make this change via a SQL Query.

EXEC sp_configure ‘max text repl size’, 2147483647
GO

RECONFIGURE
GO

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