Morning all,
I'm after a clarification/confirmation regarding the rules relating to different versions of SQL in a merge replication topology.
I have a publisher SQL2014 SP1 CU4, and several hundred subscribers who have SQLExpress.
We have started to upgrade the subscriber estate from SQL2008 to the same build as the publisher, but I've noticed some subscribers now have a higher build number than the publisher - seemingly windows update has downloaded and applied CU9.
Does this matter ? The documentation states :- "A Subscriber to a merge publication can be any version less than or equal to the Publisher version".
I presume this refers to the SQL2014 part, so it's ok for a subscriber to have a higher build number than the publisher
as long as the version mumber is the same, is that correct ? Would like to have the comfort of people soothing the gnawing anxiety that comes with anything merge rep!
thanks in anticipation.