Hello,
I'm looking for some advice about recovering data from a subscription database. I have a situation where we are using merge replication for several subscribers, and it appears as though for one of the subscribers the replication agent had not been running for a few months and therefore the changes at the subscriber were not being uploaded to the publisher. The subscription has then expired and been cleared off from the publication database and a new snapshot has been applied against the lapsed subscription.
Is it possible to recover the data which would have been updated at the subscriber prior to the new snapshot being applied? I was thinking this might be possible by looking at the msmerge_contents table and some of the other tables involved in tracking the changes, but could not see a way to do it; based on the number of records in this table on the subscriber it does not appear as though this has been overwritten. Unfortunately, there is not a backup of the subscription database available prior to the new snapshot being applied.
Any advice would be appreciated!
Thanks.