2337155 - SQL Remote intermittently fails to send messages

• You see the following message while running SQL Remote Message Agent (dbremote) with -v verbose switch:

I. 2016-02-29 13:02:09. COMMIT
I. 2016-02-29 13:02:09. Sending message to "G080" (1-050151928772-050151938041-0)
I. 2016-02-29 13:03:32. Sending message to "G080" (1-050151938041-050152291226-0)
I. 2016-02-29 13:03:32. sopen "T:G080t04.1m7" failure 64: Invalid argument
I. 2016-02-29 13:03:32. sopen "T:G080t04.1m8" failure 64: Invalid argument
I. 2016-02-29 13:03:32. sopen "T:G080t04.1m9" failure 64: Invalid argument
I. 2016-02-29 13:03:32. sopen "T:G080t04.1ma" failure 64: Invalid argument
I. 2016-02-29 13:03:32. sopen "T:G080t04.1mb" failure 64: Invalid argument
E. 2016-02-29 13:03:32. Error sending message
I. 2016-02-29 13:03:32. Resend requests are being queued
I. 2016-02-29 13:04:40. Execution completed

• On a next run, you see the following message with starting offset "stuck" (050151938041 in the example):

I. 2016-02-29 14:35:09. Processing transactions from active transaction log
I. 2016-02-29 14:35:10. Sending message to "G080" (1-050151938041-050152294405-0)
I. 2016-02-29 14:35:10. sopen "T:G080t04.1m7" failure 3: No such file or directory
I. 2016-02-29 14:35:10. sopen "T:G080t04.1m8" failure 3: No such file or directory
I. 2016-02-29 14:35:10. sopen "T:G080t04.1m9" failure 3: No such file or directory
I. 2016-02-29 14:35:10. sopen "T:G080t04.1ma" failure 3: No such file or directory
I. 2016-02-29 14:35:10. sopen "T:G080t04.1mb" failure 3: No such file or directory
E. 2016-02-29 14:35:10. Error sending message
I. 2016-02-29 14:35:10. Resend requests are being queued
I. 2016-02-29 14:35:10. Hovering at end of active log
I. 2016-02-29 14:36:16. Execution completed

• Any subsequent runs generate same error messages with transaction log's ending offset increased
• dbremote appears to work after few hours later and report insert/delete/update from the same stuck starting offset

I. 2016-02-29 17:04:17. Scanning logs starting at offset 050151938041
I. 2016-02-29 17:04:17. Processing transaction logs from directory "c:\vs_pos\"
I. 2016-02-29 17:05:15. Processing transactions from active transaction log
I. 2016-02-29 17:05:31. Sending message to "G080" (1-050151938041-050155323926-0)
I. 2016-02-29 17:05:31. Hovering at end of active log

• As result, you lost some of the transactions

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• SQL Remote
• SQL Remote message files stored on a mapped drive
• Any supported Microsoft Windows OS

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