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sp_markpendingschemachange (Transact-SQL)

Used for supportability of merge publications by enabling an administrator to skip selected pending schema changes so that they will not be replicated. This stored procedure is executed at the Publisher on the publication database.

Warning

This stored procedure can cause schema changes not to be replicated. It should only be used to resolve issues after other methods, such as reinitialization, have already been tried or are too expensive in terms of performance.

Syntax

sp_markpendingschemachange [@publication = ] 'publication'
    [ , [ @schemaversion = ] schemaversion ]
    [ , [ @status = ] 'status' ]

Arguments

  • [@publication= ] 'publication'
    Is the name of the publication. publication is sysname, with no default.
  • [ @status= ] 'status'
    Is whether a pending schema change will be skipped. status is nvarchar(10) with a default value of active. If the value of status is skipped, then the selected schema change will not be replicated.

Return Code Values

0 (success) or 1 (failure)

Remarks

sp_markpendingschemachange is used with merge replication.

sp_markpendingschemachange is a stored procedure intended for the supportability of merge replication and should be used only when other corrective actions, such as reinitialization, have failed to correct the situation or are too expensive in terms of performance.

Permissions

Only members of the sysadmin fixed server role or db_owner fixed database role can execute sp_markpendingschemachange.

See Also

Reference

sysmergeschemachange (Transact-SQL)

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