making schema change in peer to peer replication

  • Hi, MSDN article

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms151196.aspx

    says that:

    The following actions require the system to be quiesced. This means stopping activity on published tables at all nodes and making sure that each node has received all changes from all other nodes.

    --Making schema changes

    I just made a schema change in my test invironment, it went thru fine. May I know why is the case?

  • KATHLEEN Y ZHANG (11/17/2008)


    Hi, MSDN article

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms151196.aspx

    says that:

    The following actions require the system to be quiesced. This means stopping activity on published tables at all nodes and making sure that each node has received all changes from all other nodes.

    --Making schema changes

    I just made a schema change in my test invironment, it went thru fine. May I know why is the case?

    If you made the change on a live system you maybe "risking" loosing data. It does not mean that it cannot be done. In 2008 MS ensures that there is not data loss even if you don't do the "quiesce".


    * Noel

  • Thanks Noel!

    I know with sql 2005, it is the same for 'transactional replication with updatable subscription'. Do you know with sql 2008, does it allow schema change without loosing data for this type of replication as well?

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