Question

Guys, I have a task to do for my colleague and I need to know if is possible to specify the filter to subscribers when using replication in SQL Server?

What I mean is, I don’t want to create 3 types of publishers, each one to each one subscriber (with filter in publisher to redirect to specific subscriber but the inverse.)

I want to indicate to a subscriber the type of data to replicate.

It is possible?

Really Thanks

Answer 1

A certain degree of customization is available in a Merge Replication topology. See: Filtering Published Data.

Parameterized row filters, which are
available only with merge replication.

Using parameterized row filters, you
can choose a subset of rows to be
published. Unlike static filters that
send the same subset of rows to every
Subscriber, parameterized row filters
use a data value supplied by the
Subscriber to send Subscribers
different subsets of rows.

For an ordinary snapshot or transactional replication, all of your filtering would need to happen on the publisher.