I recently restored latest production database backup on my development machine. Production database has replication setup for some of the tables as a publisher.
I then made some changes to stored procedures and tables (modified some and created some new ones) and compared my local copy of database with current production database on production server using VS 2008 Schema compare. After comparison completed I realized (to my surprise) that changes related to replication (rowguid table columns and table triggers called MSMerge***) were not restored on local copy.
Is this an expected behavior? I don't really know anything about replication and it is not important if it doesn't work on my local copy of the database. I am modifying come tables and stored procedures for the project I am working on and was expecting that the only differences between schemas would be that I made but all these replication related items always come up (because they don't exist on local copy) and it is a bit of an inconvenience.