I'm connected to a sql server via remote connection from my computer that has sql server express 2014 on it. I'm trying to do transactional replciation between the two. I'm following along with the tutorials that microsoft has for this and right now setting up servers in preparation for replication according to the tutorials.
On lesson 2 of that guide to set up your tutorials I'm trying to find the filepath on this server that's located at this production facility, the filepath is C:/ProgramFiles/Microsoft SQL Server/MSSQL.X/MSSQL/data this is to create a snapshot folder at the publisher to share it. The thing is though I don't see the data folder in MSSQL and i've looked for it and still can't find it. So my question is how important is it to make this repl_data folder for sharing in that specific directory, can I just make it under MSSQL?