Adding a new article to Transactional replication

Hi,
I added a new article to an already existing publication via EM,
and reintialized it. When the snapshot agent ran the change was
replicated, but the snapshot agent took the snapshot of all the
articles in the publication about 85 of them, instead of just
replicating the change.
IS there a way to reintialize an article in the publication, so
snapshot agent would only snap that one article instead of the whole
publication?
Does this also apply to adding a new column or dropping a column from a
publication?
Thanks for your help.
GG
for sql 2000 replicating to sql 2000 subscribers, only the article should be
replicated. I am not sure what happened in your case.
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"GG" <gdabbara@.gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> I added a new article to an already existing publication via EM,
> and reintialized it. When the snapshot agent ran the change was
> replicated, but the snapshot agent took the snapshot of all the
> articles in the publication about 85 of them, instead of just
> replicating the change.
> IS there a way to reintialize an article in the publication, so
> snapshot agent would only snap that one article instead of the whole
> publication?
> Does this also apply to adding a new column or dropping a column from a
> publication?
>
> Thanks for your help.
> GG
>
|||You mention that you reinitialized it - this is the reason why all articles
were created by the snapshot agent. After adding the article, you just need
to run the snapshot agent and then the distribution agent to get the single
article.
Rgds,
Paul Ibison SQL Server MVP, www.replicationanswers.com
(recommended sql server 2000 replication book:
http://www.nwsu.com/0974973602p.html)
|||Thanks for your responses. I will try just starting the snapshot agent
instead of reintializing the whole publication. I was under the
impression that snapshot agent doesn't know about the change unless I
reintialize.
Thanks
GG
|||Adding an article is normally taken care of when running the snapshot. There
are some exceptions - if the initial publication was a nosync one, then the
snapshot of the new article won't generate anything by default. However
assuming this is niot the case you'll be fine.
Rgds,
Paul Ibison SQL Server MVP, www.replicationanswers.com
(recommended sql server 2000 replication book:
http://www.nwsu.com/0974973602p.html)