PRB: REPL: "Last Distributor Job ID and Last Subscriber Job ID Do Not Match" Error (217384)

SYMPTOMS

The distribution task reports the following error:

Last distributor job ID and last subscriber job ID do not match. No jobs were available with job ID > %.d

This problem occurs when the MSlast_job_info table at the subscriber is not synchronized with the MSsubscriber_status table at the distributor. This problem may also happen if the publisher is unpublished and then published again.

WORKAROUND

To work around this problem, synchronize the MSlast_job_info table with the MSsubscriber_status table. To do this, do the following:

On the distribution database, run the following:

   declare @dist_job_id int
   select @dist_job_id=max (job_id) from MSsubscriber_status where
   publisher_id=<pub_id> and publisher_db=<publishing_db_name>
   and subscriber_id=<sub_id> and subsriber_db=<subscribing_db_name>

On the subscriber database, run the following:

   use <subscribing_db_name>
   go
   update MSlast_job_info set job_id=<@dist_job_id> where publisher=<publ_server_name>
   and publisher_db=<publishing_db_name>
   go

If you encounter this error after subscribing to a publication from a subscriber, you can set the job_id to 0. If all the subscriptions come from the same server, you can drop the MSlast_jobs_info table at the subscriber and then re-run the distribution task.