Hi all,
I've been messing around with SQL Server replication here the last few days and I have a couple questions... Background information is that this is mostly in a test environment so I can change things pretty free and easy.
1. my setup would be this: SQL Server 2008 R2 running on Windows Server 2008. I have this server setup as the publisher and I have a database that I am publishing 6 tables for an application. 2 of the tables are set to be bi-directional, the others only allow the subscribers to download updates. This is setup as a "merge" publication.
2. I plan on having clients with Windows tablets loaded with SQL Server 2014 Express going around our service area. I figured I could easily have the clients replicate the 6 tables I need from the publisher and all would be well and wonderful.
3. It seems to work... if I can keep the signal. Since the clients will be mobile, I want to make sure that if they lose connection (which is likely to happen at some point or another) that they will simply reconnect and replicate like nothing happened.
The problem seems to be that with my machine (I'm running SQL Server 2008 R2 locally on my pc), if I simply disconnect from the network and then re-connect, the replication fails. Looking at the sync status on my PC, it shows "The merge process could not connect to the Publisher. Check to ensure that the server is running."
I know the server is running, I know all is well on that end, its simply not automatically reconnecting like I think it should.
Am I doing something wrong or thinking of this application the wrong way?
Thanks!