1) No you need to reinitialize.
2) can you give me an example of what you are talking about?
BTW-I would probably have a single merge and transactional publication for
logistical reasons.
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http://www.indexserverfaq.com [quoted text, click to view] "Andrei Zakharov" <zandr@newsgroup.nospam> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> There are 18 Transactional Publications, one for every
> subscriber. In these publications there are certain tables where the data
> practically do not change. The data in these publications is transferred
> to all subscribers identically.
> There is one Merge publication, with 18 subscribers. Its
> tables do not cross with those in Transactional Publications, and its
> data is changed regularly and is transferred to all subscribers
> individually separated. Selection of the data for each subscriber is
> regulated by many rules (which are adjusted by publication properties).
>
> 1) Is it possible to change structure of the tables in all above
> mentioned
> databases and to correct data selection rules of the Merge publication
> without re-initializing subscribers?
>
> 2) Why is text in Russian displayed incorrectly in all the stored
> procedures after the post-snapshot script has been executed at the
> subscriber side (although it is seen correctly in the post-snapshot
> script itself), and, how can it be fixed?
>
> --
> Andrei.
>
>