We have transactional replication working on sql server 2008. Our Publisher and Distribution database reside on P2 our data is being replicated to P1 via Pull Subscriptions.
We have several tables that have only their schema replicated and for those tables I have set filters so that the tables always remain empty even when loading a new snapshot.
My question is about validation. When I run validation these (schema only) tables seems to pass validation even though one table has records in it and the other is empty. Is this by design or is there something wrong with my configuration that is causing this? I need to explain to management why validation reports successful on tables whose data is not getting replicated. It makes them question the accuracy of the replication overall.
Any ideas/pointers to explanations would be appreciated.