From: José Luis on
This post was solved by our technical team. We found out that the error was
caused because the Merge System Tables of the suscriptors were corrupted. For
some reason that we do not know there was the information of previous
replications in the table. So when the replication occurred all that
information was brought to the main server which makes the publication with
those redundancy tables. The error message was according to what was
happening. Now it would help us to know if there is some way through
configuration that we could prevent that in the future. It looked like the
SQL wasn´t cleaning the system merge tables each time that we eliminated the
suscriptor.


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> "José Luis" wrote:
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> > Hi.
> > Trying to start the snapshot I got the following error: "The subscription
> > could not be initialized using an initial snapshot because one or more tables
> > in the suscription belong to another publication, and therefore cannot be
> > dropped" (Source: MSSQL_REPL, Error number: MSSQL_REPL-2147200976).
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> > I could make the first server publication and replication with no problem.
> > When I try to replicate with other suscriptor it is when I got this error.
> > Regards, José
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> > P.S. Running SQL Server 2005 enterprise edition with SP2 on Windows 2003
> > server. Merge replication.
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