I get this error when I Push New subscription and indicate NO, to initialize
schema and data.
the wizard dialog is: Initial Subscription, and I am choosing: No,
subscriber already has schema and data
Does the subscriber have an identical table ther already (including the guid
column)?
Regards,
Paul Ibison SQL Server MVP, www.replicationanswers.com
(recommended sql server 2000 replication book:
http://www.nwsu.com/0974973602p.html)
|||No. I just have four tables in my publication and checked for that first.
"Paul Ibison" <Paul.Ibison@.Pygmalion.Com> wrote in message
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> Does the subscriber have an identical table ther already (including the
> guid
> column)?
> Regards,
> Paul Ibison SQL Server MVP, www.replicationanswers.com
> (recommended sql server 2000 replication book:
> http://www.nwsu.com/0974973602p.html)
>
|||Robert,
the table must already be there in a nosync initialization, in identical
format to the publisher one.
If you are saying it isn't there, then you'll need to use backup/restore or
DTS or some other means to transfer it.
Rgds,
Paul Ibison
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> No. I just have four tables in my publication and checked for that first.
>
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|||Thank you Paul. I feel special today with all your attention.
I meant the column rowguid; I checked that it was not present as I assume
the PushNewSubscription process will create the column in the table at the
subscriber.
What I really am trying to accomplish, and forgive me, is how do I "turn on
replication" at the publisher-machine when my subscriber machine is already
in a working-production environment?
My thinking is that I start with a blank database at the publisher, schema
matching the subscriber, and enable publishing and push a new subscription
but NOT intializing schema and data. Because I'm guessing the blank
database at the publisher will destroy all records at the live subscriber,
making it blank also. Am I correct and what is the solution?
Thank you very, very much.
Bob
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> Robert,
> the table must already be there in a nosync initialization, in identical
> format to the publisher one.
> If you are saying it isn't there, then you'll need to use backup/restore
> or
> DTS or some other means to transfer it.
> Rgds,
> Paul Ibison
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>
|||Robert,
please keep the questions coming - this is my great
hobby
The initialization process can do one of two things:
(a) if you choose a synch initialization, then the
complete table will be BCPd out into the repldata share.
In that share there'll be several textfiles - for
creating the schema, the indexes, one containing data,
but the initial text file contains simply a 'drop table'
statement. That means that it really doesn't matter what
is on the subscriber - there can be a table of the same
name or not. if there is, it'll be deleted anyway.
(b) you select to do a nosync initialization. In this
case, the exact ssame table (inc guid) must exist on the
subscriber. The initialization process will create
metadata tables on the subscriber, but it won't touch the
replicated table at all.
There are further variations if we consider other options
for @.pre_creation_cmd, where you can select to leave the
table there if it already exists and such like, but these
are for specialist scenarios.
HTH,
Paul Ibison SQL Server MVP, www.replicationanswers.com
(recommended sql server 2000 replication book:
http://www.nwsu.com/0974973602p.html)
