I am trying to implement merge publication with compress snapshot, copy it
to the subscriber,
create a pull subscriber with the alternate folder(where the snapshot was
copied to)

I've got a snapshot replication problem. My master database has some
tables which are replicated on 2 read-only databases. In every
database, I have the same roles, but not the same users. When I
replicate the database, every rights on my replicated tables are

I have SQL 2005 merge repl working at about 20 branches.  I just added a new
one, but for some reaon the tables and procs in the articles are not being
sent to the subscriber.  I thought the agent when started will sync the 2
together.  I scripted out one of my other branch repl ...

I have customer that is setup for merge replication (SQL 2000) and
everything WAS working fine. Now, they are receiving an error in the
error details of the merge agent:
Login failed for user '(null)'. Reason: not associated with a trusted

All of a sudden, Sql Server 2000 Replication has started failing for
Transaction and Merge Replication on our system.  I have been restarting the
Distribution and Merge Agents and after Refresh, the Red X goes away (for a
little while).  Something obviously is out of synch.  But ...

Please help, I am getting the followng Error on my Server
[5/30/2007 2:28:16 PM]STGITDSQL.ITD: select @@SERVERNAME
[5/30/2007 2:28:16 PM]STGITDSQL.ITD: sp_MSgetversion
Status: 4096, code: 20024, text: 'Initializing'.

I am following "Creating a Mobile Application with SQL Server Compact
Edition" and reached "Creating the Publication Snapshot" View Snapshot Agent
Staus -> Start but the agent remains on Starting and finally times out after
10 minutes. Any pointers appreciated.

I got typical scenario in transacrtional replication. i want to avoid bulk
copy during replication.
Let me explain my scenario.
I’m doing transactional replication between two databases.

I get this error during Merge replication
" Cannot insert the value NULL into column 'nicknames', table
'REP_Sub.dbo.MSmerge_genhistory'; column does not allow nulls. INSERT fails. "
Can anyone help

SQL2K4, SP4, W2k3 SP1.  When I start up my merge agent, I get the following
error:
The process could not make a generation at the 'Subscriber'.
(Source: Merge Replication Provider (Agent); Error number: -2147200994

How does SQL 2005 handle Two-way merge with identity columns?
How are identity columns handled with incremental numbers?
Does the merge process prevent duplication of numbers?

We have a SQL 2K5 with sp2 as a publisher using push replication to two other
SQL servers.  One of the subscriber servers is SQL 2005 and the other one is
SQL 2000.  I recently made a table schema change which I increased a few
length in a field from Varchar(20) to Varchar(50).   ...

I need to use AS400 source as Publisher and SQL Server as subscriber. Can I
accomplish this in SQL 2000 and 2005?

Senario
I have a SQL Server 2000 SP4 that is Publisher and distributor plus a SQL
Server 2000 SP3a that is a Publisher.
There replicates to 2 SQL Server 2000 SP4 over the company WAN.

We have transactional replication(not updatable) between 2 databses on the
same server (sql server2000).
Our requiremnt is to prevent the deletes to go to subscriber db. So, while
setting up transactional replication entered NONE in  article commands