message 'The Distributor has not been installed correctly'

Question

I get the message

The Distributor has not been installed correctly Could not enable database for publishing

when trying to execute sp_replicationdboption. The publisher (which is on separate server from distributor) is shown correctly when I run EXEC sp_helpdistpublisher but if I run sp_get_distributor from the publisher all fields are null

Thanks it is working now, not sure what changed so that it now works — Christine Glew, Oct 03 '22 at 15:59

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 01 '22 at 16:35

First you make sure you connect to your distributor server with [server\instance] from you publisher server. Also you need to set up all the replication accounts and make sure they have the right permissions and you need to create the distribution database in your distributor_server

there is this script as an example:

-- This script uses sqlcmd scripting variables. They are in the form
-- $(MyVariable). For information about how to use scripting variables  
-- on the command line and in SQL Server Management Studio, see the 
-- "Executing Replication Scripts" section in the topic
-- "Programming Replication Using System Stored Procedures".
-- Install the Distributor and the distribution database.
DECLARE @distributor AS sysname;
DECLARE @distributionDB AS sysname;
DECLARE @publisher AS sysname;
DECLARE @directory AS nvarchar(500);
DECLARE @publicationDB AS sysname;
-- Specify the Distributor name.
SET @distributor = $(DistPubServer);
-- Specify the distribution database.
SET @distributionDB = N'distribution';
-- Specify the Publisher name.
SET @publisher = $(DistPubServer);
-- Specify the replication working directory.
SET @directory = N'\' + $(DistPubServer) + '\repldata';
-- Specify the publication database.
SET @publicationDB = N'AdventureWorks2012';
-- Install the server MYDISTPUB as a Distributor using the defaults,
-- including autogenerating the distributor password.
USE master
EXEC sp_adddistributor @distributor = @distributor;
-- Create a new distribution database using the defaults, including
-- using Windows Authentication.
USE master
EXEC sp_adddistributiondb @database = @distributionDB, 
    @security_mode = 1;
GO
-- Create a Publisher and enable AdventureWorks2012 for replication.
-- Add MYDISTPUB as a publisher with MYDISTPUB as a local distributor
-- and use Windows Authentication.
DECLARE @distributionDB AS sysname;
DECLARE @publisher AS sysname;
-- Specify the distribution database.
SET @distributionDB = N'distribution';
-- Specify the Publisher name.
SET @publisher = $(DistPubServer);
USE [distribution]
EXEC sp_adddistpublisher @publisher=@publisher, 
    @distribution_db=@distributionDB, 
    @security_mode = 1;
GO

You can also have a look at the way I got it done: call the procedure sp_adddistpublisher as shown here.

message 'The Distributor has not been installed correctly'

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