i am creating my merge publication via DMO in my VB.NET program. I used
to create only 1 publication, but since i now understand there is a
limit to the number of articles available for a single publication in
merge replication, i changed my program to make a publication for each

I tried implementing a custom business logic handler in out replication
environment which consists out of a central publisher, three re-publishers
and a number of laptops as final subscribers.
In the UpdateHandler I check for updates on one table which are not

We upgraded recently to SQL Server 2005 SP2 .
For some issues we are having, we are looking at precomputed partitiions
with our merge publication.
When I run a  sp_helpmergesubscription I see:

Do any one know where to get good Knowledge resources for writing and
implementing stored procedures for bidirectional transactional replication.
I f any body has one implemented recently can you spare the steps involved
and the best practises associated with this type of ...

i was setting up merge replication and received a message that a table
couldn't be replicated because it has more than 254 columns. THe table
in question has 288 columns.
So  -  I can only replicate 254 columns?

I am making of sql 2005 - transaction replicaton.
data flows from the publisher to the subscriber - staging tables. From the
staging tables we want the data to move to the transaction tables at the
subscriber end.

We have several operational companies doing projects in the gas and oil
industry. These companies use a smorgasbord of applications running against a
central SQL Server in Central Europe.
To overcome latency issues we are planning to have about a dozen SQL Servers

Hi SQL server expert,
I have a merge replication. The table has a primary key and an identity
column.
when I insert one row at the publisher and one row at the subscriber with

Hi, environment is SQL2005 [wkg_sql] non domain & IIS6 [wkg_iis] non
domain.
My steps are same as the steps in the following three articles:
How to: Configure a Publication to Allow for Web Synchronization (SQL

Did anyone perform a transactional replication where delete instructions
are not replicated ?
Advises would be very appreciate.
Regards

I am settign up transactional replication from a single 2005 instance to a
clustered pair of 2005 sql servers. My question is do I set the connection to
hit the clustered virtual name or the actual server names in the cluster?
tia!

I am using SQL2000, and want to set up the transaction replication.  Is is
ok to setup the simple mode on my publisher database?
Thanks,
Tomas

I have created a publisher on one SQL Server 2000 box for a merge
replication.  When I create the subscription, I receive the following error:
Message
The schema script '\\NVIS\$SQLDATA$xxxxxxx_1.sch' could not be propagated to

I have implemented a system with 2 SQL 2000 servers with a DB for
archiving of production data of a manufacturing plant; the DB is merge
replicated between the 2 servers.
Now, the technical personnel of the plant has requested me a guide for

We have Server A, which is running Merge replication and acting as Publisher
and Distributor.
We have new server C which we needs to move our replication from A to this.
Server B is the only subscriber