I have a sql server 2005 database that I want to setup replication for. The problem is that the database has two schemas both of which have a table with the same name in it.
For some reason even though the tables are in different schemas the replication creation fails when done through management studio due to conflicting article names (i assume its trying to create the same name for both tables in the different schemas).
Is there any workaround for doing this in the studio, I can probably write a script or program to do this but just for this one thign is a bit annoying and it probably wont be allowed to run in production.
Perhaps there is a hot fix or something I’m not aware about?
Cheers,
There doesn’t appear to be a way around this purely using the new publication wizard in SSMS – the article name is always the table name without a schema-qualifier, and can’t be customised from the wizard – although there is a work-around if you use the scripting options.
Go through the wizard as normal, but at the end of the process, untick the “create publication” option and select the “Generate script file…” option.
Once the file is created, open it and edit the article names so that they no longer conflict, then execute the script in the publication database.