From: wadii boulila on
I have performed a transactional replication in my company. This done
through a script SQL that I wrote. Everything is OK. However, replication
agents are still idles. I need a script or a command sql to start the three
agents (snapshot, journal and distribution).
When I right click and I set start they work. However, I need to perform
this automatically with a script transact-sql or a command sql.

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From: Paul Ibison on
Sp_start_job is all you need.
HTH,
Paul Ibison