I am running merge replication with SQL 2012.
When I first create my publication the MSMerge_contents table is populated with a large number of records with the colv1 being set to 0xFF.
When I run the stored procedure like this,
sp_showcolv @colv =0xFFIt becomes apparent that these records do not represent actual changes to the underlying records, unless I am missing something?
Why are those records there? Is it because of partitioning, or column level tracking?