Well tried mate!. Yes it may not be practical in most situations. That apart, I have one query.

Can the user be able to view the values of the dummy column...

Yes..Thanks Steve. I got the solution. I did transactional replication without initialization while creating subscriptions. I unchecked 'Initialize' check box in Initialize Subscriptions in the wizard. This solved the problem....

Thanks for the reply Steve.

I am using transactional replication.let me explain the scenarios clearly.

I am using 3 databases namely A1,A2 and A3.

A1 and A2 reside in one server named S1...