I have two SQL Server instances, both are SQL Server 2008 (not R2).
Instance one has a database called Production that currently has Transactional Replication setup on it. The distributor and publisher exist in this instance.
Instance two has a copy of the database called Production from instance one. Replication was not setup when this database copy was attached to instance two.
Problems start to occur however if I setup Transactional Replication to work with that database on instance two. Essentially the tables to be replicated are the same as those in Instance 1. But when I setup up the distributor and publisher on it some, but not all, of the replication jobs start to fail on Instance 1.
Is this a bug in SQL Server 2008 or am I missing something here? I would think that setting up distributors and publishers on different DB instances would not interfere with the operation of replication jobs for publishers on each other's respective instance. But that does not appear to be the case.
Can anyone help?