A proxy account can "limit" the effect but because you...

Check your connection settings in SSMS .... make sure you have the required connection settings as specified by the Error

go to publisher and execute

exec sp_removedbreplication @dbname = 'dbname'

go to subscriber and execute

exec sp_removedbreplication @dbname = 'dbname'

Recreate your replication from the wizards as usual.

--good luck

you will need "PULL" subscription instead of push.

2008 can be subscriber perfectly well. I have used this in the pass to "upgrade" SQL Server boxes.

Search for open schema design or EAV model ... there are a lot of discussions about this.

-Noel

This is one of the things that you can verify easily in 2008.

When you create a publication on a database and replicate ddl statements is "on" your database gets 4...

As far as I know there is no control (at user level) on how sp_addarticle works from transaction isolation level perspective.

Adding articles to a publication does generates some DDL...

Again: why are you "adding" articles multiple times ?

I was talking about replication snapshot.

If you are initializing using db backup you are then *not* having problems at "replication initial snapshot" time.

Because the snapshot is actually never run!

Now...

Yes it is possible

You shouldn't be using status bits directly the translations are mostly spread out into separated columns now for easier use.

That said:

Status Bits

Bet you are blocked!

What snapshot initialization mode are you using?

What I still don't get is "What does all of this has to do with SQL Server ?". It looks like a completely independent product. Sure you can insert into...