-> I was working on a transactional replication issue.

-> The log and distribution agent were failing with below error,

Error messages:
The process could not execute ‘sp_replcmds’ on ‘jbpub-DR’. (Source: MSSQL_REPL, Error number: MSSQL_REPL20011)
Get help: http://help/MSSQL_REPL20011
Cannot execute as the database principal because the principal “dbo” does not exist, this type of principal cannot be impersonated, or you do not have permission. (Source: MSSQLServer, Error number: 15517)
Get help: http://help/15517
The process could not execute ‘sp_replcmds’ on ‘jbpub-DR’. (Source: MSSQL_REPL, Error number: MSSQL_REPL22037)
Get help: http://help/MSSQL_REPL22037

-> The database used in this replication process is Accounts. As per the error message I checked the database owner and could see that it was blank as shown in below screenshot,

-> I changed the database owner to sa using below query,

USE [Accounts]
 GO
 ALTER AUTHORIZATION ON DATABASE::[Accounts] TO [sa]
 GO

-> I restarted the log and distribution agent. It completed fine this time.

Thank You,
Vivek Janakiraman

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