DDL issued against the published articles will propogate to the subscribers when they synchronize.

You do have the ability to disable DDL replication if you need to:

-- Turn off DDL replication...

We are currently using Merge Replication with 2008 Server as the publisher and clients running 2008 Express on their laptops. We recently upgraded from 2005 on both ends.

What...

Hi,

I am having a similar problem, with a similar environment to yours. I have also followed the steps in the KB article you mentioned with no success. ...

Sean,

No, we never did get the Message Queue task to work the way we wanted it to - perhaps it is possible, but we gave up on it and...

How do you mean performaing badly, what metrics are you using to make this assumption?

I would only ever expect a scan on deleted, if the table is small (...

Q. How many Microsoft employees does it take to change a light bulb?

A. They don't change it.  They declare darkness to be the new standard.

Here is a snippet of VB.Net code that I am currently using to do just that...

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Dim crReportDocument As New...

Also be mindful that @@ERROR is reset after each statement is executed.  From looking at your pseudo-code, this may be your problem

BEGIN TRANSACTION  

insert into ... blah blah blah blah

blah...

Use SCOPE_IDENTITY in this case. There's a reason it's called that - because it retrieves the ID within the scope of your proc. IDENT_CURRENT should only be used...