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Asked: 2026-05-10T18:06:39+00:00

The basic problem is like this: A subscriber has successfully replicated a row from

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The basic problem is like this:
A subscriber has successfully replicated a row from the publisher, using transactional replication. Now, how do we keep track the time of this row being last successfully replicated?

A friend has suggested the following solution, which he used for his SQL Server 2000:
1) Add a datetime column.
2) Change the replication stored procedure to update the datetime column (!).

The step #2 sets off all sorts of warning bells within me, so I’m asking if there are better solutions for SQL Server 2005 in this situation, before I even go into detail with his solution.

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  1. I’d do exactly what your friend suggested. That way, only calls to the replication procedure would update the timestamp.

    The problem with this approach is that you need a write lock, but I don’ see any other practical way.

    You could otherwise use a trigger that fires when you fetch the row (don’t quote me on that, I very seldom used triggers), but that doesn’t seem right (you might end with false positives)

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