tks for the reply jen. I agree with out to deal with the cause. So i was thinking, as the distribution agent would give an error number '17' when theres...

does setting 99 to number of retries make it infinite?

pardon me, snapshot is not able to solve the problem where there are some data in server A and some data in server B which i like to keep. Does...

I believe that the initial snapshot is for this purpose. However I believe that the subscriber will be made the same as the publisher. This means that subscriber will become...

In replication, i believe the data has to be in sync first before any replication can take place. Is this correct?

tested merge, but the latency was not acceptable. so decided on bi-directional transactional replication. I tried to use the steps given in msn kb "How to implement bidirectional Transactional Replication"...

I guess u need to stop the replication first. Have not seen any other way on the web as of now.