Subscription Expired... Can I un-expire it ?

  • Once a subscription has expired (Because I forgot to check "Subscriptions never expire"  D'oh ! ) is there a way to "un-expire" the subscription. There must be a flag in a system table somewhere, but I haven't fount it .... Yet !       I'd rather not reinitialize and start from scratch.

    Why would you want subscriptions to expire anyway ?

  • Subscriptions are set to expire because in case you configure a replication for temporary purpose after which you forgot the remove the subscription then in this case the publisher will expire & drop the subscriptions after the specified days if no activities are recorded for replication, this is to avoid load on the publisher.

     

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    Prakash Sawant

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  • Thanks ... I guess I'd prefer the default to be "never expire". 

    It looks as though I have to drop what remains of the subscription & recreate it using the existing data ... I think the expiration process actually deletes information in the systems tables, not just flagging the data.

    Thanks anyway.

  • might be the status field in mssubscriptions on

    distribution database

     

  • I think once the subscription expires you need to resetup replication from scratch.

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