On Mar 29, 10:08 am, "Hilary Cotter" <hilary.cot...@gmail.com> wrote:
> They are purged as they fall out of the conflict retention and merge
> metadata retention windows.
>

"Crash" <sourcenexus@san.rr.com> wrote in message
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> Publisher: Windows 2000 SP4
> SQL2005 SP1
>
> Subscriber:SQL Server Express
> Tablet XP SP2
>
> If I have a subscription retention of 20 days and a subscriber never
> misses a 20 day window; aka they never "expire" because they always
> replicate within the retention period, what happens to the replication
> meta-data? Is the meta-data ever cleaned up in this case or does it
> grow and grow because the subscription never exceeded the retention
> window?
>
> Also, If I have no expiration for my subscribers - not recommended I
> know - is there any way to purge the history? Would reinitializing
> the subscription clean things up -or- because there was no expiration,
> would it keeps everything and grow, grow, grow regardless of a
> reinitialize?
>

"Crash" <sourcenexus@san.rr.com> wrote in message
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> On Mar 29, 10:08 am, "Hilary Cotter" <hilary.cot...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> They are purged as they fall out of the conflict retention and merge
>> metadata retention windows.
>>
>
> Don't quite understand your statement.
>
> Yes/No: If subscription is never expired then because I have a 20 day
> retention my history will never grow beyond such as appropriate for a
> 20 day retention.
>
> True/False: If I have no expiration then history will never stop
> growing even if I reinitialize a subscription.
>
>
>