How to add tabls to published article without recreating snapshot?

Hi experts:

We have 4 SQL SERVER 2000 servers linked via replication, and due to business changes we have to add one table to the published databases. And the existed database has more than 20g, recreating the snapshot and re-init replication is not allowed as the business cannot be stopped more than 1 hour. So my question is how to add tables to the published article without recreating the snapshot?

By that is not possilbe, can we publish one new article on the same database?

Thanks in advance!

Ron

Hi Ron,

If you are using merge replication, you have to regenerate the snapshot for the entire publication after you added the new article. For snapshot\transactional replication, the snapshot agent will only generate the snapshot for the new article if the immediate_sync property of your publication is set to 0. In any case, you can always put the new article in a separate publication instead.

Hope that helps,

-Raymond