The way I read the original question, the OP doesn't want to drop the column from the table at the publisher, they simply want to stop a specific column from...

This is an older question, but I wanted to add a reply, I don't think the above answers are what you are looking for.

To remove a column from replication without...

Thanks, Steve.

For reference, the KB article on the issue is found here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2463682

Looks like the fix was released for 2008 in SP3, and for 2008R2 in SP1.

Note, though,...

I did forget to mention, thanks for this article! This is a gaping hole in the current documentation!

One more question:

Besides dropping the certificate and restarting the server while I cross...

When you say, in step 4, to truncate the log file, do you mean simply to do a

DBCC Shrinkfile (name = 'databaselog', TRUNCATEONLY)?

And then in step 5, switch to...

The explicit BEGIN TRAN, COMMIT TRAN in the batch delete is unnecessary, SQL will by default commit each individual statement, unless you put a transaction around the entire process. Totally...

For me the key is "information at my fingertips".

I can't tell you how many times I've been in a meeting (maybe even an informal hallway meeting), and had unanswerable questions...