I have setup a publisher on a server running SQL2014. That publisher is setup for merge replication with 7 subscribers. I have setup four tables to publish and each table is set to download only. On two of the subscriptions I continue get this error after
the first successful replication:
The Merge Agent failed because the schema of the article at the Publisher does not match the schema of the article at the Subscriber. This can occur when there are pending DDL changes waiting to be applied at the Subscriber. Restart the Merge Agent to apply the DDL changes and synchronize the subscription. (Source: MSSQL_REPL, Error number: MSSQL_REPL-2147199398)
I have reinitialized the subscriptions, validated the subscriptions, created a new snapshot and I even have dropped the subscriptions and recreated them. Each time I try one of these tasks the replication seems to work once and any subsequent iterations of the scheduled replication fails with the error above. Any ideas what might be wrong with these two subscriptions?John