Greetings.
We've got transactional replication setup between a 3 TB database and several reporting servers. For very long winded reasons we want to remove large amounts of data from OLTP, and would be totally fine with it staying on the replication servers. A potentially important fun fact is that the Subscriptions are initiated from a backup, not from a snapshot.
My thought was to change the Publication properties for "DELETE delivery format" to "Do not replicate DELETE statements". However, when I make that change I get the following warning:
I hit Mark For Reinitialization as I have no option. Once complete, I attempt to launch a Tracer Token in Replication Monitor, and get the following error:
Is there any way to make this magic happen without needing to reinitialize?
Thanks in advance! ChrisRDBA