Table Reports Replication When It''s Not

  • I have a database in production that is being replicated to a seperate instance of SQL Server2000.  For development purposes, when I want the latest data from that database, I take a copy of the full backup and just restore it on my machine that doesn't have replication turned on. 

    When I try to make changes to specific tables on my development machine that are replicated in the production environment, I get errors saying that the table is replicated.  There is even a "ghost" publisher and I can't delete that also because it says it can't find stored procedure .

    Here is the error I receive when I try to drop a column:

    ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN failed because 'SellerOrderNumber' is currently replicated.

    Does anyone know how I can clean up these replication artifacts on my development database so I can create scripts to modify the production database?

    (I do know that when I modify the production db, I will have to delete the subscriptions, publishers etc. before I can modify the db. )

    Thanks for your help.

    David Petersen


    Kindest Regards,

    David Petersen
    dipetersen.com

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  • Hi there,

    Picked up this error before...

    If you have more than one table doing this, it's going to a lot of work... I got the error on one table...

    Setup this object to be replicated & then just remove it again...

    That's it!!

     

  • Try using sp_removedbreplication 'dbname'.

    That should fix it.

     

     

     

     

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