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This is a quickie blog post, but I thought I’d post it before I forgot about it.

 

We have transactional replication turned on for one of our production databases.  This database includes XML fields and we recently saw the following error:

 

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

 

Looking into it, this is a server setting and the default value for Max Text Replication Size is 65536 (bytes).   Because our XML data is of varying sizes, I made the decision to set this to the maximum allowable value – 2147483647 (bytes). 

 

To change it through SSMS:

•                Right click on the server and choose Properties
•                In the Advanced page – change the Max Text Replication Size to 2147483647

In T-SQL:

EXEC sp_configure ‘max text repl size’, 2147483647

GO