From: RichardD on
We have had a problem for the past 2 years with replication agents failing
with the following error.

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OUR ERROR:
The Merge Agent failed after detecting that retention-based metadata cleanup
has deleted metadata at the Publisher for changes not yet sent to the
Subscriber. You must reinitialize the subscription (without upload).
(Source: MSSQL_REPL, Error number: MSSQL_REPL-2147199402)
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It appears there might be a fix but the error message shown in Article ID
953624 is not quite the same. (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953624/en-us)


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ARTICLE ERROR:
The Merge Agent failed after detecting that retention - based metadata
cleanup has deleted metadata at the Subscriber for change not yet send to the
Publisher. You must reinitialize the subscription (without upload).
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


The Subscriber and Publisher are reversed. Does anybody know if this will
fix our issue or is there another fix available.

Thanks in advance!
Richard
From: Hilary Cotter on
This is the same class of error. This bug has lingered through a few bug
fixes and you might see if again after the latest one.

"RichardD" <RichardD(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F3EAF97E-A0BA-4E25-87BF-545661A1AC77(a)microsoft.com...
> We have had a problem for the past 2 years with replication agents failing
> with the following error.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> OUR ERROR:
> The Merge Agent failed after detecting that retention-based metadata
> cleanup
> has deleted metadata at the Publisher for changes not yet sent to the
> Subscriber. You must reinitialize the subscription (without upload).
> (Source: MSSQL_REPL, Error number: MSSQL_REPL-2147199402)
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> It appears there might be a fix but the error message shown in Article ID
> 953624 is not quite the same.
> (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953624/en-us)
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ARTICLE ERROR:
> The Merge Agent failed after detecting that retention - based metadata
> cleanup has deleted metadata at the Subscriber for change not yet send to
> the
> Publisher. You must reinitialize the subscription (without upload).
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> The Subscriber and Publisher are reversed. Does anybody know if this will
> fix our issue or is there another fix available.
>
> Thanks in advance!
> Richard