Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Enterprise Manager Hanging when removing replication

I'm trying to remove replication from my database so that I can run some update scripts on it but SQL Enterprise Manager just keeps hanging on me. I've searched the web an no-one seems to have had this problem.

Does anyone know of this problem or have they experienced it? If so, can you help?

Am I doing something wrong trying to remove the replication (deleting the publication)?

Thanks.

More than likely it is working, it can take some time to delete a publication if there is a lot of history to remove.

If you delete the publication using a store procedure, it won't lock up SQL Enterprise Manager while you do it. If it's a merge publication you do that with this command:

exec sp_dropmergepublication @.publication = <publication name>

|||Drop the subscriptions before you drop the publications. As roamingsim has pointed out it is better to do this through QA as opposed to Enterprise Manager.

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