Re: MSmerge_history delivery_time seems wrong in 2000



Is your agent running continuously or scheduled. It could represent the time
the DML occurred as opposed to when it was merged.

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"JIM" <jkatsos@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi all,

I am trying to use delivery_time to gauge the performance of my merge
agent.

In BOL this is defined as Number of seconds it took to apply a batch of
changes. In SQL Server 2000 this figure appears wrong.

I run the following select statement.

select start_time,time,delivery_time,comments
from MSmerge_history
where agent_id = 4
order by time desc

(Results shown at bottom.)

The question I have is this:

Between histrory entries the delivery_time which I can only assume is
cummulative like the rest of the metrics (e.g. insert count, duration
e.t.c) jump a very large amount, even though only a small amount of
time has passed.

Take the last 2 entries below. (I know these happened close together)

Delivery time is 150901 and 146479 respectively and the logged time is
09:18:45.753 and 09:18:45.550.

A difference of 4422 seconds???

If my assumption that delivery_time is a cumulative count in seconds is
correct than this value make no sense.

Either I am misunderstanding the data or this is just simply wrong.
Could it be milliseconds that might make sense?



start_time time delivery_time comments

2006-06-06 13:41:20.803 2006-06-07 09:18:45.753 150901 Downloaded 100
data changes (100 inserts, 0 updates, 0 deletes, 0 conflicts).

2006-06-06 13:41:20.803 2006-06-07 09:18:45.550 146479 Downloaded 102
data changes (102 inserts, 0 updates, 0 deletes, 0 conflicts).

2006-06-06 13:41:20.803 2006-06-07 09:18:45.080 142557 Downloaded 100
data changes (100 inserts, 0 updates, 0 deletes, 0 conflicts).

2006-06-06 13:41:20.803 2006-06-07 09:18:44.910 139198 Downloaded 100
data changes (100 inserts, 0 updates, 0 deletes, 0 conflicts).

2006-06-06 13:41:20.803 2006-06-07 09:18:37.033 135541 No data needed
to be merged.

2006-06-06 13:41:20.803 2006-06-07 09:17:36.940 135541 No data needed
to be merged.



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