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The merge process failed Udit Ghai
10/26/2006 11:35:41 PM
sql server replication: hi, i have been playing around with the custom resolver for merge
replication. i have a merge publication with 1 article having non
overlapping partitions dynamic partitions going to a single partition.
i have 2 subscriptions which had row tracking enabled. i changed the
resolver to microsoft sqlserver averaging conflict resolver and the
tracking to column tracking. After reinitializing the subscriptions one
subscription worked fine while the other gave the following error

"The merge process failed because it detected a mismatch between the
replication metadata of the two replicas, such that some changes could
be lost leading to non-convergence. This could be due to the subscriber
not having synchronized within the retention period, or because of one
of the replicas being restored to a backup older than retention period,
or because of the publisher performing more aggressive cleanup on
articles of type download-only and articles with partition_options =
3."

i even tried to create a new snapshot for that partition and then
reinitialize the subscription but what happens is that it applies the
snapshot succesfully to the subscriber in the next synchronization but
afterwards the same error message appears. i can re-create the
subscription since this is on a test database but i want to find out
why this error is coming so i would be nice if you could help solve
this without dropping the subscription

thanks
Re: The merge process failed Udit Ghai
10/27/2006 6:32:01 AM
same error occurs even if i change the resolver

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Re: The merge process failed Hilary Cotter
10/27/2006 9:11:43 AM
It sounds like your custom resolver is breaking your subscription. Do you
get this error if you use a different resolver?

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Re: The merge process failed Hilary Cotter
10/27/2006 12:57:35 PM
Could you post the schema of the problem table here?

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Re: The merge process failed Udit Ghai
10/29/2006 8:17:33 PM
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Country](
[CountryID] [tinyint] NOT NULL,
[Country] [nchar](10) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL,
[SalesAmount] [money] NULL,
[ProfitMargin] [tinyint] NULL,
[Emp#] [smallint] NULL,
[rowguid] [uniqueidentifier] ROWGUIDCOL NOT NULL CONSTRAINT
[MSmerge_df_rowguid_B389D91DC4AB4995AF7890432D74DA55] DEFAULT
(newsequentialid()),
CONSTRAINT [PK_Country] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
(
[CountryID] ASC
)WITH (PAD_INDEX = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF) ON [PRIMARY]
) ON [PRIMARY]



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Re: The merge process failed Udit Ghai
10/31/2006 8:28:59 PM
hey some help required over here
thanks,
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