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DVSQL

Posted Friday, April 13, 2012 12:41 PM

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Just curious to see if this is something that's possible to do. I'd imagine that there should not be any problems, since you can do the same with 2005 to 2008, perhaps I've overlooked something? This will be for transactional replication.

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JeremyE

Posted Friday, April 13, 2012 2:09 PM

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Yes, this is possible.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143699.aspx

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Stivan Widick

Posted Tuesday, May 08, 2012 2:09 PM

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The link that the responder answered with has nothing to do with the question that was asked.

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JeremyE

Posted Tuesday, May 08, 2012 2:13 PM

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Did you read anything from the link?

The 3rd bullet point in:

Subscriber version depends on the type of publication:

A Subscriber to a transactional publication can be any version within two versions of the Publisher version. For example: a SQL Server 2005 Publisher running can have SQL Server 2012 Subscribers; and a SQL Server 2012 Publisher can have SQL Server 2005 Subscribers.

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Stivan Widick

Posted Tuesday, May 08, 2012 2:29 PM

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Yes, sorry, I did miss that bit.

Might want to also include the following, as merge is an exception: "A Subscriber to a merge publication can be any version less than or equal to the Publisher version."

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William Soranno

Posted Thursday, February 21, 2013 1:48 AM

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I must be missing something. I have just finished rebuilding my publishing sql server on sql server 2008 r2. When I try to add one of my sql server 2012 servers as a subscriber I get the following error message:

The selected Subscriber does not satisfy the minimum version compatibility level of the selected publication.

The publisher is 2008 R2 SP2 and the subscriber is 2012 SP1.

Bill Soranno
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Winona State University
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happycat59

Posted Thursday, February 21, 2013 8:53 PM

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I am not sure but I suspect that the distributor you are using is SQL 2008 R2. Normally, I would expect the distributor to be the most recent version of all of the SQL servers involved (in your case, this would mean that your distributor should be SQL 2012)

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Posted Monday, February 25, 2013 5:12 AM

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There are some issues if you connect to SS2012 (Subscriber) with SQL Management Studio 2008 or 2008 R2 (Publisher/Distributor).
Try with stored procedure or with SQLCMD

DECLARE @publication AS sysname;
DECLARE @subscriber AS sysname;
DECLARE @subscriptionDB AS sysname;
DECLARE @frequency_type as int;
DECLARE @subscriber_security_mode as int;
DECLARE @subscriber_login AS sysname;
DECLARE @subscriber_password AS sysname;

SET @publication = ______________ ;
SET @subscriber = ________________;
SET @subscriptionDB = _______________;
SET @frequency_type= ___ ; --(you must check frequency type)
SET @subscriber_security_mode= ___ ; --(you must check security mode)
SET @subscriber_login=______________;
SET @subscriber_password=__________; --(if security mode is 0, SQL Server authentication)

--Add a push subscription to a transactional publication.
USE [DBName]

EXEC sp_addsubscription
@publication = @publication,
@subscriber = @subscriber,
@destination_db = @subscriptionDB,
@subscription_type = N'push';

EXEC sp_addpushsubscription_agent
@publication = @publication,
@subscriber = @subscriber,
@subscriber_db = @subscriptionDB,
@subscriber_security_mode=@subscriber_security_mode,
@subscriber_login=@subscriber_login,
@subscriber_password=@subscriber_password,
@frequency_type = @frequency_type,
@job_login = ___________,
@job_password = __________;
GO

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William Soranno

Posted Monday, February 25, 2013 7:10 AM

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Using the sql script worked.
Thanks

Bill Soranno
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