Hi,
Is it possible to "pause" a replication and change/add/remove tables/columns?
We have a database that is replicated and sometimes we need to change columns and tables but we can't do this when the database is replicated. The only solution I've found so far is to remove the replication, do the updates and configure the replication again.
This "breaks" the software when the end-user (of the software) updates the software by them selves (which they are supposed to do) and can't update the database and we have to manually remove the replication, update the database and add the replication again and Then let the user login again.
Is there no other way of doing this than removing the replication?
The reason is that there is a web application that the end-users customers can logon and we need to use "live" data but don't connect to the "hot" database.
We thought we could solve this with replication so the web application connects to the replicated database and the software still use the "hot" database.