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Asked: 2026-05-18T02:51:11+00:00

I have a server with about 3 replications configured. 3 databases being published to

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I have a server with about 3 replications configured.

  • 3 databases being published to about 3 other servers
  • there’s a central Distributor

I need to know if I can change the distributor for one of the publishings and let the others or if I can only change all of the replication distributors at the publisher server.

And How to do this.

Example:

ProdServer has

  • DB1 – Publishing
  • DB2 – Publishing
  • DB3 – Publishing

DB1ReplSrv has

  • DB1 – Subscribing

DB2ReplSrv has

  • DB2 – Subscribing

DB3ReplSrv has

  • DB3 – Subscribing

RplDistSrv is the distributor for all of this.

Let’s say I create a new server:
NewRplDistSrv I wan’t slowly change the replications distributor server.

PS:I don’t know if it’s a Pull or Push Replication, how do I check this?

Sorry for my noobish question. But I would like to learn.

Thanks in advance,

Gabriel

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  1. Editorial Team

    I managed to do this.

    I couldn’t remove the distributor before because when I tried Enterprise Manager would hang forever.

    I managed to do this by taking sql service offline on the RplDistSrv machine.

    And only then trying to remove the configuration on ProdServer.

    By the way I had to redo all current replications.

    I had to reconfigure it in Enterprise Manager, by right clicking the ProdServer and selecting Replication I believe. this was done a while ago.

    I found Enterprise Manager a bit confusing, sorry I couldn’t give any step by step on how to do this.
    But its doable if you stop the sql service of the distributor, and remove all replication config from the server. that uses the distributor. And then reconfigure it to use another server as replicator.

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