pros and cons of using transaction replication doing initialization from database backups

I am using transaction replication between a transaction and reporting database server. When I use a snapshot to initialize my subscribers, I currently get a lot of deadlocks during the snapshot creation. I am considering using a database backup instead. Can anyone tells me how to reduce the table locks that I am getting during snapshot creation or advice on using database backups?

Hi,

Transactional replication provides several different sync method to help alleviate locking issue on publication DB. You can take a look at @.sync_method in sp_addpublication (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188738.aspx).

You can try with concurrent/concurrent_c. And if you are using SQL 2005 SP2 and you are using enterprise edition, you can also use "database snapshot/database snapshot character". Snapshot agent creates a DB snapshot on the publication DB and then generates replication snapshot based on the DB snapshot. So it significantly reduces the possiblities of deadlocking on the publication DB.

Peng

Programatticaly setting up history snapshot schedule

I am trying to do this with a web service but cant seem to figure out how,
as there is no direct method or function for it, it seems. But I have a
report I created programatically through the web services. Now I want to set
up a history snapshot schedule for it, I already have schedules set up on
the server as shared schedules, but now I need to tie them to the report to
have them execute according to the schedule. Any ideas on how to do this?
Google wasnt much help to me in finding info. thanks!Is this particular report is going to be fixed for running from a snapshot ?
In that case go to Report manager and select that particular
report->Properties ->execution and select "Render this report from a report
execution snapshot"
Amarnath, MCTS
"Smokey Grindel" wrote:
> I am trying to do this with a web service but cant seem to figure out how,
> as there is no direct method or function for it, it seems. But I have a
> report I created programatically through the web services. Now I want to set
> up a history snapshot schedule for it, I already have schedules set up on
> the server as shared schedules, but now I need to tie them to the report to
> have them execute according to the schedule. Any ideas on how to do this?
> Google wasnt much help to me in finding info. thanks!
>
>|||Unfortinuatly that doesnt solve my problem of how to do it programatically,
which is what I was trying to find out, but I eventually found the web
service method SetReportHistoryOptions
"Amarnath" <Amarnath@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Is this particular report is going to be fixed for running from a snapshot
> ?
> In that case go to Report manager and select that particular
> report->Properties ->execution and select "Render this report from a
> report
> execution snapshot"
> Amarnath, MCTS
> "Smokey Grindel" wrote:
>> I am trying to do this with a web service but cant seem to figure out
>> how,
>> as there is no direct method or function for it, it seems. But I have a
>> report I created programatically through the web services. Now I want to
>> set
>> up a history snapshot schedule for it, I already have schedules set up
>> on
>> the server as shared schedules, but now I need to tie them to the report
>> to
>> have them execute according to the schedule. Any ideas on how to do this?
>> Google wasnt much help to me in finding info. thanks!
>>