Hi,

I know it has been a couple of months, but I am still trying to find an answer on this question.

Using Merge Push Replication from Sql Server 2008 R2 (Distributor/Publisher),...

In Sql Server 2005, you can use the sp_startpublication_snapshot stored procedure to achieve this, using the following format:

sp_startpublication_snapshot [ @publication = ] 'publication'

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