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Troubleshoot Fabric mirrored databases

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Scenarios, resolutions, and workarounds for Microsoft Fabric mirrored databases.

Important

This feature is in preview.

Resources

Review the troubleshooting section of frequently asked questions for each data source:

Review limitations documentation for each data source:

Stop replication

When you select Stop replication, OneLake files remain as is, but incremental replication stops. You can restart the replication at any time by selecting Start replication. You might want to do stop/start replication when resetting the state of replication, after source database changes, or as a troubleshooting tool.

Troubleshoot

This section contains general Mirroring troubleshooting steps.

Why am I getting "trial capacity" or "internal server" errors when I try to create a mirrored database"?

You must enable mirroring for your workspace or tenant. For more information, see enable mirroring. If you observe persistent errors, open a support ticket.

I can't connect to a source database

  1. Check your connection details are correct, server name, database name, username, and password.
  2. Check the server is not behind a firewall or private virtual network. Open the appropriate firewall ports.

No views are replicated

Currently, views are not supported. Only replicating regular tables are supported.

No tables are being replicated

  1. Check the monitoring status to check the status of the tables. For more information, see Monitor Fabric mirrored database replication.
  2. Select the Configure replication button. Check to see if the tables are present in the list of tables, or if any Alerts on each table detail are present.

Columns are missing from the destination table

  1. Select the Configure replication button.
  2. Select the Alert icon next to the table detail if any columns are not being replicated.

Some of the data in my column appears to be truncated

The Fabric warehouse does not support VARCHAR(max) it only currently supports VARCHAR(8000).

Data doesn't appear to be replicating

In the Monitoring page, the date shown is the last time data was successfully replicated.

I can't change the source database

Changing the source database is not supported. Create a new mirrored database.

Limits error messages

These common error messages have explanations and mitigations:

Error message Reason Mitigation
"The replication is being throttled due to destination space limit." There's a maximum of 10 TB of storage space in destination per Mirrored database. The replication is being throttled due to destination space limit. In the source database, drop tables, remove data, or shard.
"The tables count may exceed the limit, there could be some tables missing." There's a maximum of 500 tables. In the source database, drop or filter tables. If the new table is the 500th table, no mitigation required.
"The replication is being throttled and expected to continue at YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:ss." There's a maximum of 1 TB of change data captured per Mirrored database per day. Wait for throttling to end.

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