select a.article,d.name,ds.* from
MSdistribution_status ds inner join MSarticles a on ds.article_id=a.article_id
inner join MSdistribution_agents d on ds.agent_id=d.id

“sp_replmonitorsubscriptionpendingcmds” applies only for Transactional replication and the equivalent for Merge is “sp_showpendingchanges”

I think I will write a new blog for that

@SQLBrook :

To return the actual pending commands , you will need to run “sp_browsereplcmds” which returns the replicated commands stored in the distribution database

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms176109.aspx

I don’t think it is a good idea to retrieve these commands or store them in a temp table because they can be thousands or millions and they will take so much time to retrieve ; better to retrieve them manually when there is a problem otherwise make sure DIST agent is running and delivering them

Your query is great. I can get all the information. Is there anyway to get the actually pending command. Or can we update the quert to get the pending commands in another temp# table?

Thanks,
-B

The first subquery (sub1) will get list of all agents in the replication subsystem.

“ALL” refers to logreader agents but later in the code I’m joining to another subquery (sub3) telling to retrieve only Distribution agents ( agent_type = 3 )

have you run the code as a whole block or you are running piece by piece ?

HTH

Its great, but i’m having an issue.

In the first subquery, the select from the msdistribution_agents table, in my case, with 17 records, all but 2 of them have ‘all’ as the publication field.

This causes the join to fail. I’m still digging into what ‘all’ means, but figured i’d report it here as well.

thx for the hard work!

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SELECT ”’+ @publisher +”’ , ”’+ @publisher_db +”’ ,”’+ @publication + ”’ , ”’ + @subscriber + ”’ , ”’ + @subscriber_db + ”’ ,*
FROM OPENROWSET (”SQLOLEDB”,”Server=’+@@servername+’;TRUSTED_CONNECTION=YES;”,”set fmtonly off EXEC distribution..sp_replmonitorsubscriptionpENDingcmds @publisher= ””’+ @publisher +””’ ,@subscription_type=0, @publisher_db= ””’+ @publisher_db +””’,@publication = ””’+ @publication+””’,@subscriber= ””’+@subscriber+””’ ,@subscriber_db=””’+@subscriber_db+”””’)
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