Avoid copying data from Pub to Sub

  • Hi

    I had replication set up for one table and the replication was going fine. I dropped the subscriber=> dropped the publisher => added one more table at both Publisher & the subscriber. When i try to create a new publisher, i chose the option "Keep existing table and data" instead of drop and recreate since i did not want the subscriber data to be touched. Now i am seeing the synchronization status generating / copying full dump of data in the shared unc folder.

    - Is this normal behaviour? What if the tables size is 100s of GB? How do i tell SQL Server replication to worry only about data to be inserted?

  • Found the solution. The trick is to use sp_add_article , sp_addsubscription with the latest LSN. It should not result in duplicates being geneated (-SkipError "2627" can then be used).

    I am posting this since it might be of help to those facing similar situation.

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