OK. I'm officially insane.
I've managed to create an orphaned push subscription. I deleted the
subscribers from EM via the publisher screen, then I deleted the publishers.
But under replication|subscribers there is still a subscriber to a

Hi - I want to change the precision/scale on a decimal datatype on a field
which is in a replicated table (merge). I tried to alter the field on the
publisher but I receive a message saying that I can't do this due to the
table being a replicated table.

I have a publication defined with the default sync_method of native. I have
1 subscriber subscribing to that publication . I am adding a new subscriber
and want to subscribe to it with the concurrent option. Can I change the
publication property without affecting the existing ...

When I execute
(MergePullSubscription)mPullSub.SynchronizationAgent.Synchronize() I get an
error {"The MergeSynchronizationAgent class must be instantiated on a
Single-Threaded Apartment (STA) thread."}, but as far as I can tell it is.  I

I need to replicate specific data fields to a contact folder on an
MsExchange server. Is this something I could do with a DTS package or should
I be looking elsewhere.
If  I can't set up a DTS package, what type of programming do I need to do

I wondered if you would be able to assist on this one....?
I have a server with several publications, all going to databases on one
subscriber at a remote site. Some of the DBs work fine with snapshot
replication and need no further attention. However, several of the DBs fail

Hello..I am going to implement Merge Replication with MSDE 2000.
please let me know how many users MSDE 2000 can burden the workload. It
will degrade the preformance if more than 5 concurrent user will start
work on it concurrently.

In testing (learning?) I added a table to a database after a publication was
created. Then I went to modify that publication but the new table didn't
show up in the list of articles. But when I did this with a view it did show
up. Is there something about new tables that prevents ...

I have set up a transactional replication with 2pc's.
One server is the publisher & the distributor, and the other one is the
subscriber.
Everything is fine, but the replication stops when my partner shut down

Can somebody help please - i keep getting this erro when trying to sycn
up my emulator to my Merged Replication DB.
"The row update or insert cannot be reapplied due to an integrity
violation. [,,,,,]"

According to Hillary's book, the table MSRepl_commands contains the commands
necessary to sync between publishe and subscriber. In my test database, this
is currently empty. This leads me to assume that these entries are deleted
as the subcribers are fully synched. Is this ...

The short story. Many branch databases need to be consolidated into one
central database.
Each branch has identical schemas:
CREATE TABLE [Table1] (

I need to do parallel snapshots for 2 transactional replication subscribers
to one publication.
Is this possible and how?
The initial snapshots are taking longer and longer - I am now very close to

Guys,
Is two way replication possible in MS SQL server??? Can I do it with
transactional replication???
If yes then which model do I need to use, Multiple publisher/multiple

All,
I am trying to get a SQLExpress client to merge replicate with SQL Server
2005 April CTP.
I am using RMO to create the subscription, register with the publisher, and