Drop article, needs recreation of snapshot?

  • Hi, I'm runnig a pull subscription (transactional) and want to drop an article from the publisher.

    When I try to drop an article in the test environment it says that the subscriptions has to be reinitialized from a new snapshot. I click ok and the replication is still working without reinitializing??

    Do I have to reinitialize the subscriptions or not?

    I can understand that the snapshot not is up to date but I do not need it (I do not have any snapshot available and do not need any).

    Br

    Johan

  • Hi, anybody knows?

    I only want to know if I can drop an article without doing a reinititializion in Sql server 2005?

    It seems to be working in my case on a test server but I do not want to do this in production in case of it wants a new snapshot..

  • Stop all activity on the database

    Stop replication

    delete subscription (no subscriptions must exist on the publication otherwise it will require a new snapshot)

    drop article

    recreate subscription with no initialization

    restart replication

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  • See link below about adding articles and the 'allow immediate sync' property

    http://deepakrangarajan.blogspot.com/2009/01/sql-2005-transaction-replication-adding.html

    John.

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