Hi guys,
I'm hoping if you guys could help to explain the weird situation I'm facing.
On our main Windows Server 2008 R2, we have SQL Server 2012 Standard setup with Merge Replication. The server has around 15 subscribers. One of the subscribers replicates data on a VPN connection set up over a mobile broadband connection. Now what has happened is the mobile connection dropped and the subscriber could not connect to the server through VPN. After a few days when the connection was back up, the replication monitor started giving this error --
Error messages:
The subscription to publication 'abc' could not be verified. Ensure that all Merge Agent command line parameters are specified correctly and that the subscription is correctly configured. If the Publisher no longer has information about this subscription, drop
and recreate the subscription. (Source: MSSQL_REPL, Error number: MSSQL_REPL-2147201019)
Get help: http://help/MSSQL_REPL-2147201019
The subscription could not be found. (Source: MSSQLServer, Error number: 20021)
Get help: http://help/20021
I checked the subscription at the subscriber and indeed the said subscription was missing from there. This has happened for the second time in the last few months and I'm not exactly sure if it's entirely because of the network dropout. I have had similar situations where a subscriber was off-network for a while and when it was connected back to the network, it replicated fine. I tried checking the error logs to get a clue of why this was happening but no success.
It's a pain to drop the database and recreate the subscription back again as it's very time consuming. Any help on why this is happening would be great.
Thanks