What does reinitialize subscription mean?

Reinitializing a subscription involves applying a new snapshot of one or more articles to one or more Subscribers: transactional and snapshot replication allow individual articles to be reinitialized; merge replication requires all articles to be reinitialized.

How do I reinitialize my subscription?

Expand the publication that has the subscription you want to reinitialize. Right-click the subscription, and then click Reinitialize.

How do I use snapshot agent?

To start and stop a Snapshot Agent, Log Reader Agent, or Queue Reader Agent from Replication Monitor

1. Expand a Publisher group in the left pane, expand a Publisher, and then click a publication.
2. Click the Agents tab.
3. Right-click an agent, and then click Start Agent or Stop Agent.

What is difference between snapshot and transactional replication?

The differences are the mechanisms on how the data replicated from the publication to the subscriptions. For a snapshot replication, it has two agents during the replication process, snapshot agent and distribution agent; while transactional replication has an additional agent, Log Reader agent.

How do I cancel a SQL Server subscription?

Connect to the Subscriber in SQL Server Management Studio, and then expand the server node. Expand the Replication folder, and then expand the Local Subscriptions folder. Right-click the subscription you want to delete, and then click Delete.

How does snapshot replication work?

Snapshot replication distributes data exactly as it appears at a specific moment in time and does not monitor for updates to the data. When synchronization occurs, the entire snapshot is generated and sent to Subscribers.

How do I configure snapshot replication?

Steps of SQL Server Snapshot Replication

1. Step 1: Configure the Distributor.
2. Step 2: Configure the Publisher.
3. Step 3: Configure the Subscriber.
4. Step 4: Data Verification of the Snapshot Replication.

Is primary key required for replication?

Snapshot replication does not require a primary key.

How do I cancel my replication subscription?

To delete a pull subscription at the Subscriber

1. Connect to the Subscriber in SQL Server Management Studio, and then expand the server node.
2. Expand the Replication folder, and then expand the Local Subscriptions folder.
3. Right-click the subscription you want to delete, and then click Delete.

How do I remove a subscriber from replication?

To delete a push subscription at the Subscriber Expand the Replication folder, and then expand the Local Subscriptions folder. Right-click the subscription you want to delete, and then click Delete. In the confirmation dialog box, select whether to connect to the Publisher to delete subscription information.