I have replication setup between a Publisher and a Subcriber with a nominal production load on the system. The replication between the servers has been running successfully for few days. However, after 5-6 days, the replication between the servers stopped with the below error message:
"The Merge Agent failed after detecting that retention-based metadata cleanup has deleted metadata at the Subscriber for changes not yet sent to the Publisher. You must reinitialize the subscription (without upload)."
When i browsed through the MS forums, I found that the issue was observed in SQL Server 2005 and has been fixed as part of the hotfix available under the link below:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/919929
I am currently using SQL Server 2008 SP1 Standard Edition and the same issue is reproducible in it now.
Hence, can anyone please let me know if the above hotfix (of SQL Server 2005) is available for the SQL Server 2008 SP1 Standard Edition version also? Please help.
Thanks in advance.