My application's db's data comes from daily flat file images of Ocean shipping data. At the end of a lot of trial and error, this is the process I use...

Microsoft explicitly recommends against using HN in C#. Where do you see that they are pushing the opposite?

KB217395 solved my problem.

My two problem servers did not have themselves registered in their own internal tables.

SYMPTOMS

Markus/Steve:

I've tried both your ideas.

Markus: the specific error I'm getting is this:

The subscription to publication 'IPP' is invalid.

(Source: Merge Replication Provider (Agent); Error number: -2147201019)

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The remote server is not defined...

I forgot to mention, I did run Profile on the subscriber, so I think I should have all the activity that was going on, if that helps.

You know your data best of course.

My flatfile looks like this

ACHIKSFIUNY 87398 ASF9 DKS

BDSFI9SDK KDIFAS KJDSJFSKFK

BDFSDUOUOOOSD

C12

C15

C19

C9

D4

ACHIDSKFI 83942 SDKF FO

B, B, C , D, D  ETC ETC

Each line starts with...

I'm glad your solution works, though I say this with full acknoweldgement ofmy bias against vbscript, but YIKES, including the in-line SQL 

You sure...

I had a flat file that was composed of four tables , which each line had a prefix A B C or D denoting what table the line belongs to. And...

MSDE is basically the SQL Server Engine with no GUI Admin tools.  You can hook Access to it and use Access as your Front End / Admin Tool. MSDE also...

Talk about stereotyping.

Reagan's father was a staunch anti-racist and his mother was an evangelical Christian, together they informed Pres. Reagan's opinion.  Ronald Reagan began life as a New Deal...

The solution is simple.. avoid this thread if these matters have no interest to you.  That's just common sense, another of President Reagan's many virtues.

I find it humorous that the people clamoring to have "politics" taken off the site are the ones who introduced the "politics". So having put in their two cents, they...

Please. I was hardly "fanatical".. I spent more time talking about me and my being a sissy, than him.

But then again, it is a common thing for those who opposed...

I was six years old when President Reagan was elected in 1980. His election is the first political thing that I remember as Jimmy Carter and I have the same...