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Troubleshooting Database Mail

Posted in Issues/Troubleshooting by belle on September 25, 2008

If you have configured Database Mail, and SQL Server still isn’t able to send emails out, here are a few things to check/do:

Enable TCP/IP

Start > SQL Server Surface Area Configuration > Surface Area Configuration for Services and Connections

Enable Mail Profile

Right click on SQL Server Agent > Properties > Alert System > Enable Mail Profile

Restart SQL Server Agent

Tagged with: Database Mail

Issue: Length of LOB data to be replicated exceeds configured maximum 65536

Posted in Issues/Troubleshooting by belle on September 22, 2008

Error:

Length of LOB data (78862) to be replicated exceeds configured maximum 65536

Scenario:

We published some articles that use varchar(max) and a lot of XML data types for the columns. When we enabled replication, we got the error Length of LOB data (78862) to be replicated exceeds configured maximum 65536

Solution:

Increase the size that can be replicated. This is applicable for transactional replication only.

T-SQL:
EXEC sp_configure ‘max text repl size’, 2147483647

SSMS (excerpt from BOL):

In Object Explorer, right-click a server and select Properties.
Click the Advanced node.
Under Miscellaneous, change the Max Text Replication Size option to the desired value.

Reference:

BOL ms-help://MS.SQLCC.v9/MS.SQLSVR.v9.en/udb9/html/3056cf64-621d-4996-9162-3913f6bc6d5b.htm

Tagged with: Replication