HELP! Subscription obsolete and Data NOT sychronized!

We have 3 databases, one publisher and two subscriber.
Merge-Replication, constantly replicated.
Because of unknown circumstances, the replication process failed for
over 14 days, and the publication had a retention time of 14 days.
I wasn=B4t detected earlier, and now is the great question:
HOW CAN I MERGE MY 3 DATABASES TOGETHER?
Is there a possibility to tell the subscribion, that they are NOT
obsolete?
To create a new snapshot won't work, i get a lot of errors afterwards.
To remove the subscriptions and setup the subscriptions anew, will
procede a well-running merge-replication, but with different data.
What about turning back the system time for a few days?
I would be very glad if you have an idea.
Andreas, you could manually synchronize the data using datacompare from
Redgate then do a nosync initialization.
Cheers,
Paul Ibison SQL Server MVP, www.replicationanswers.com
(recommended sql server 2000 replication book:
http://www.nwsu.com/0974973602p.html)
|||Paul Ibison schrieb:

> Andreas, you could manually synchronize the data using datacompare from
> Redgate then do a nosync initialization.
> Cheers,
> Paul Ibison SQL Server MVP, www.replicationanswers.com
> (recommended sql server 2000 replication book:
> http://www.nwsu.com/0974973602p.html)
But SQL DataCompare can either copy from database A to B or from B to
A, but cannot merge, or am I wrong?
And I a dataset exists on site A, but not on B, does that mean, that
the dataset was new on A and should copy to B, or was the dataset
delete on B and should also be deleted on A?
|||there is no way in Merge, there is a way in transactional but its dangerous.
If you do reinitialize it will prompt you to upload changes from the
subscriber first which will send the subscribers changes to the publisher.
I think you need to investigate 1) what is causing the problem which makes
your subscriber go offline 2) what is causing these errors you get after
running the snapshot.
Hilary Cotter
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http://www.nwsu.com/0974973602.html
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"Andreas Lauffer" <alweb01@.online.de> wrote in message
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We have 3 databases, one publisher and two subscriber.
Merge-Replication, constantly replicated.
Because of unknown circumstances, the replication process failed for
over 14 days, and the publication had a retention time of 14 days.
I wasnt detected earlier, and now is the great question:
HOW CAN I MERGE MY 3 DATABASES TOGETHER?
Is there a possibility to tell the subscribion, that they are NOT
obsolete?
To create a new snapshot won't work, i get a lot of errors afterwards.
To remove the subscriptions and setup the subscriptions anew, will
procede a well-running merge-replication, but with different data.
What about turning back the system time for a few days?
I would be very glad if you have an idea.
|||Andreas - you're quite right. To get this to work, you'll have to select
which one is the master in terms of updates to the same record on both
sites. If the updates are partitioned, then you can use this tool more
easily, but if there are a lot of conflicts then there is a big problem to
sort out, and only you can decide what is appropriate ie who wins these
conflicts, or in other words, which node is the master.
Cheers,
Paul Ibison SQL Server MVP, www.replicationanswers.com
(recommended sql server 2000 replication book:
http://www.nwsu.com/0974973602p.html)
|||Hillary,
thank you for your answer, but I don=B4t understand exacly what this
means for me.
I use merge-replication, not transactual replication.
What happens, if I reinitialize my databases? Will the subscribers
upload their data then?
What is so dangerous?
|||Unfortunately there is no master. Each of the 3 databases have the same
priority.
I cannot set anything aside.
What about my question:[vbcol=seagreen]
Do you think there is a chance to get a system which synchronizes the
data, without marking the subscibers as "obsolete"?
|||What do you think about this scenario:
1) Deleting the subscriptions
2) New pull Merge Subscriptions => Replication will run again, but with
different data
3) Restore the subscibers databases, state before deleting the
subscriptions
Do you think this will work to synchronize the databases?
If this works, maybe the changes from the publisher were not
transmittet to the subscriters yet, and I have to backup the subscribes
database and restore it as the subscribers database.
MAY THIS WORK?
|||Andreas,
this sounds feasible. You'll probably also need to change the value of the
status flag in sysmergesubscriptions. Alternatively (and probably easier)
you might be able to increase the activation/retention period and change
this flag. I haven't tried either approach and don't have any expired
subscriptions to test, so please let us know how you get on.
Cheers,
Paul Ibison SQL Server MVP, www.replicationanswers.com
(recommended sql server 2000 replication book:
http://www.nwsu.com/0974973602p.html)
|||Yes, with merge replication when you reinitialize you are prompted to upload
the changes which happened on your subscribers first.
Hilary Cotter
Looking for a SQL Server replication book?
http://www.nwsu.com/0974973602.html
Looking for a FAQ on Indexing Services/SQL FTS
http://www.indexserverfaq.com
"Andreas Lauffer" <alweb01@.online.de> wrote in message
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Hillary,
thank you for your answer, but I dont understand exacly what this
means for me.
I use merge-replication, not transactual replication.
What happens, if I reinitialize my databases? Will the subscribers
upload their data then?
What is so dangerous?