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Luckily Replication did come back up in working order. The machine affected was a subscriber that had a Push subscription being pushed to it. &nbsp;The options were all default before and after the OS rebuild.
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Luckily Replication did come back up in working order. The machine affected was a subscriber that had a Push subscription being pushed to it.  The options were all default before and after the OS rebuild.

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I have a Microsoft SQL server 2005 database which is merge replicated between 2 servers with a push subscription. &nbsp;We lost the operating system disk (C:) on the subscriber which held the master database. Is the loss of the master database going to break replication? 
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I have a Microsoft SQL server 2005 database which is merge replicated between 2 servers with a push subscription.  We lost the operating system disk (C:) on the subscriber which held the master database. Is the loss of the master database going to break replication? 

Does the Master database play a role in MS SQL Server merge replication?

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is a suite of relational database management system (RDBMS) products providing multi-user database access functionality.Component services include integration (SSIS), reporting (SSRS), analysis (SSAS), data quality, master data, T-SQL and performance tuning. It includes support for managing XML data and allows a database server to be exposed over web services using Tabular Data Stream (TDS) packets encapsulated within SOAP (protocol) requests.