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How can it run if it is offline? I don't get it.
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How can it run if it is offline? I don't get it.

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The publisher tries to replicate to a node that is off-line producing an error which in-turn might hold up replication to other servers.
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The publisher tries to replicate to a node that is off-line producing an error which in-turn might hold up replication to other servers.

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I'd like to stop replication from running to any subscriber that is offline. This involves detecting that SQL Server is not running on the remote machine. I'd like the script to run on the distributor.<br />
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Is this possible?
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I'd like to stop replication from running to any subscriber that is offline. This involves detecting that SQL Server is not running on the remote machine. I'd like the script to run on the distributor.

Is this possible?

SQL Server Watchdog timer and replication (transaction)

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Microsoft SQL Server

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