I read in SQL Books that dropping an article requires re-creating a Snapshot which took me for a loop. Rebuild snapshot on a delete? Seems to me this is a simple adjustment to the snapshot not requiring much read activity on the publisher at all.
I am always concerned about the blocking that re-creating a Snapshot will have on our Production DB (publisher)
Will snapshot process be smart and only affect the delta (as it is when Articles are Added).
We are dropping articles for Tables who are being renamed in our system (SELECT * INTO new Table ... Drop old table )
If this is going to cause hours of blocking then I suppose I have no choice but to re-initialize using a backup (which I have not done before). Is there an easy way to remove all Un-subscribed objects from the Subscriber side since I only subscribe to say 40 or our 400 tables in the publisher DB. What is the process for synching up a DB using the Backup?
Thanks all
...Ray
...Ray