It would remain there. This is probably not what you want, so you would have
"Tim Ford" <tim.ford@nospamrubbishin2focus.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Hilary,
>
> Thanks for that. What would happen to the information that was in the
table
> on the subscriber?? Would that get deleted locally, as this information
> would no longer be needed.
>
> Again Thanks for all you help.
>
> Tim.
> "Hilary Cotter" <hilary.cotter@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:%23HJ2hOjrFHA.2592@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> >I think your best option would be to drop the subscription (possibly drop
> > the publication as well to drop the triggers which will slow the
delete),
> > do
> > the delete, and then recreate the publication and subscription and do a
no
> > sync.
> >
> > --
> > 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 > > "Tim Ford" <tim.ford@nospamrubbishin2focus.com> wrote in message
> > news:eSsLlVhrFHA.3720@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> >> Hi Hilary,
> >>
> >> Thanks for your response, this is not going to be possible as we use
the
> >> ActiveX control and the publications have been hard coded. Which i know
> >> is
> >> not good. Is there any other way that we could perhaps specify the
order
> >> that things get run in I.E sp_AddScriptexec. I have worked a way out
with
> >> the system tables that we could remove generations. However i would
need
> > to
> >> make sure that sp_addscriptexec was fired first in the replication
> > process.
> >>
> >> Thanks, Tim.
> >>
> >> "Hilary Cotter" <hilary.cotter@gmail.com> wrote in message
> >> news:%23boP2ShrFHA.1788@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> >> > From what you are saying it looks like these rows on the subscriber
are
> >> > read
> >> > only and the data flow is only from the publisher to the subscriber
for
> >> > this
> >> > table. If so remove this table from the merge publication, put it in
a
> >> > transactional publication and do your deletes through a stored
> >> > procedure
> >> > and
> >> > replicate the execution of the stored procedure.
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > 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 > >> > "Tim Ford" <tim.ford@nospamrubbishin2focus.com> wrote in message
> >> > news:%23kd7psfrFHA.3604@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> >> >> Hi Guys,
> >> >>
> >> >> I need a little advice. I need to delete 250000 rows on a monthly
> >> >> basis
> >> > and
> >> >> my users are using MSDE 2000 with merge replication, publisher is
SQL
> >> > Server
> >> >> 2000 Standard.
> >> >>
> >> >> The users will never be uploading or making changes to this table.
Is
> >> > there
> >> >> any way i can make this a quick delete as currently for each row
that
> > is
> >> > in
> >> >> the Article published table sql is sending down a delete statement
for
> >> > each
> >> >> row to the subscriber. Thus taking longer than expected.
> >> >>
> >> >> Any ideas or advice would be greatly apprecitaed.
> >> >>
> >> >> Thanks, Tim.
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>