Problem Replication With DTS

I have transactional replication with DTS in SQL 2000.
In the initial snapshop i got de next error (trasnlate fron de spanish) " The process found invalid column date in the bcp file -path-".
I review the bcp file but i didn't found spacial characters. In order to discard DTS problems, the DTS had only the defult transformations that the SQL creates for it.
The problem does not appear when i don't use DTS with the same data and conditions.
Somebody has anay idea about this error?
Thank you.
what was the error number?
I am afraid your English is too poor for me to understand (and my Spanish is
too bad as well) what you are trying to do and what the problem is. Can you
post this in Spanish for me, and I'll have it translated into English and
then post back in Spanish?
cul era el nmero del error? Estoy asustado que su ingls es demasiado
pobre para que entienda lo que usted est intentando hacer y cules es el
problema. Puede usted fijar esto en espaol para m, y m voluntad para
tenerla traducida a ingls y despus para fijarla detrs en espaol?
Hilary Cotter
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> I have transactional replication with DTS in SQL 2000.
> In the initial snapshop i got de next error (trasnlate fron de spanish) "
The process found invalid column date in the bcp file -path-".
> I review the bcp file but i didn't found spacial characters. In order to
discard DTS problems, the DTS had only the defult transformations that the
SQL creates for it.
> The problem does not appear when i don't use DTS with the same data and
conditions.
> Somebody has anay idea about this error?
> Thank you.
|||Thank you for your time Hilary and sorry for my English.
I have the next Transactional replication problems:
1) I performed transactional replication to Oracle subscriber.
The subscriber was configured using Micrososft OLE DB provider for Oracle, because I need to use DTS to transform the data before applying it to Oracle.
In the initial snatshop I got error (windows error) with distrib.exe:
The instruction at '<address>' referenced memory at '<address>'.
The memory could not be "read"
Click OK to terminate the program.
This problem appears with a table with a few rows. The only that I saw in the bcp file is that, there is some char(255) fields with blanks (like char(13), or returns in Word), when I removed some of this blanks from the bcp file and restart the synchro
nization the things go fine.
When I do the same replication of the same data to SQL subscriber it's fine too.
2) The second problem with other table that I got: having the same conditions as described previously
In the initial snatshop I got error (replication error)
"The process encountered invalid column data in bcp file -PATH-"
Not error number and nothing more in the error description.
And the same, when I saw the bcp file and cut some blanks in field (character field) the things go fine.
With SQL subscriber, it's fine too.
I did not use DTS in this case but the result is the same.
I reinstalled SQL SP3 and Win2000 SP4 and I got the same result.
I don't know if there is a some deficiency with OLE DB providers when you used them with replication.
If you know how to resolve this problem, please say me.
Thank yoo for your time, and sorry for this long post.

problem pushing subscriber updates to publisher in transactional replication -

I have a primary and secondary servers both running Windows 2000 SP3 with SQL 2000 SP3. I have set up transactional replication with the primary server as publisher and the secondary server has the distributor and subscriber DB. I am testing the scenerio where my primary server goes down and I have to make updates to the secondary server until my primary server comes back up. I am able to update my subscriber database and the transactions go into the MSreplication_queue table to be pushed back to the primary when it comes back up. When I bring the primary server back up and start the queue agent job it starts pushing the transactions over and then stops after 4 or 5 transactions with the error "Failed while applying queued message to publisher". I have attached part of the log file for the agent below

dbserver2.Old_Processing: {? = call dbo.sp_getsqlqueueversion (?, ?, ?, ?)}
dbserver2.Old_Processing: {? = call dbo.sp_replsqlqgetrows (N'DBSERVER', N'Old_Processing', N'Old_Processing')}
[4/15/2004 3:59:47 PM]dbserver2.distribution: exec dbo.sp_helpdistpublisher @.publisher = N'DBSERVER'
Connecting to DBSERVER 'DBSERVER.Old_Processing'
DBSERVER.Old_Processing: {? = call dbo.sp_getqueuedarticlesynctraninfo (N'Old_Processing', 21)}
SQL Command : <exec [dbo].[sp_MSsync_ins_IQ2KProcSystem_1] N'dbserver2', N'Old_Processing', '072175', '2004-03-19 00:00:00.000', 1>
DBSERVER.Old_Processing: {? = call dbo.sp_getqueuedarticlesynctraninfo (N'Old_Processing', 15)}
SQL Command : <exec [dbo].[sp_MSsync_ins_NightlyProcess_1] N'dbserver2', N'Old_Processing', '072175', '2004-03-19 00:00:00.000', '2004-04-15 15:56:44.623000000', 'Begin ProcessIQ2KSystem', 'AB14E5D7-C81D-4A39-A8F5-51F1C48227B0', '17E5D98F-EDF0-41D0-9991-97511B850720', 1>
SQL Command : <exec [dbo].[sp_MSsync_upd_IQ2KProcSystem_1] N'dbserver2', N'Old_Processing', '072175', '2004-03-19 00:00:00.000', 1>
DBSERVER.Old_Processing: {? = call dbo.sp_getqueuedarticlesynctraninfo (N'Old_Processing', 7)}
SQL Command : <exec [dbo].[sp_MSsync_upd_TheatreProcess_1] N'dbserver2', N'Old_Processing', '072175', 1, '2004-03-19 00:00:00.000', 1, NULL, '79A114D6-FF31-4E37-AC2D-90C0A0114F40', '072175', 1, '2004-03-19 00:00:00.000', 0, NULL, 'AF61A098-44A3-45D7-B25B-E8EA9CD464A1', 0x2800, 1>
Failed while applying queued message to publisher
Disconnecting from DBSERVER 'DBSERVER'
Worker Thread 692 : Task Failed
Disconnecting from dbserver2 'dbserver2'
Processed 3 queued trans, 3 cmds, 0 conflicts
Queue Reader aborting

In the sql server logs I am getting this message:
Replication-Replication Transaction Queue Reader Subsystem: agent Repl Queue Reader failed. Failed while applying queued message to publisher.
Error: 14151, Severity: 18, State: 1

Any help would be greatly appreciatedFew suggestions:
Refer to SQLAgent log for further information.
Meanwhile, stopping and restarting SQLServerAgent may allow you to temporarily resolve the problem that you are experiencing.

Did you try to forcefully terminate any replication agents in task manager by any chance?

Finally, running the snapshot agent from the command line may allow you to determine whether it was the snapshot agent that crashed unexpectedly.|||Originally posted by Satya
Few suggestions:
Refer to SQLAgent log for further information.
Meanwhile, stopping and restarting SQLServerAgent may allow you to temporarily resolve the problem that you are experiencing.

Did you try to forcefully terminate any replication agents in task manager by any chance?

Finally, running the snapshot agent from the command line may allow you to determine whether it was the snapshot agent that crashed unexpectedly.

The SQLAgent log did not have any errors in it

Stopping and restarting SQLServerAgent did not allow me to temporarily resolve this problem. I still get the same error.

I did not forcefully terminate any replication agents in task manager.

Should I run the snapshot agent from the command line or the queue agent since the queue agent is what is failing?

I tried running the queue agent from the command line and it failed with the same error as above|||Check whether the KBA [http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;294970] is any good to you.|||I don't think that is my problem. The only way I have been able to get the queue agent to work again is to either drop and readd the subscription or reinitialize the subscription. Of course when I do this it wipes out any updates that have been done to the subscriber.