Replication Setup in Test Area

• kelvin.mullen 32991

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  November 5, 2012 at 5:17 am

  #265163

  Hi All

  Not used to posting on these things and also just getting used to SQL as a whole, so please feel free to kick me in the right direction.

  The Task:

  I want to use replication to you guessed it replicate a Database from one server to another so I can then setup reporting from the replicated DB instead of the live/production DB.

  Testing:

  I have restored the database I want on to another server and have also restored it to the report server.

  I have setup the publication and the subcriber ok, But when the publisher is creating the first snapshot it fails as it needs to have the Linked servers that are on the live box and not on the test area, Now for testing I do not want to have my test area to have a connection to the live enviroments.

  Question:

  So my question how do I either filter out what it fails on, or what is the risk of just putting the linked servers in place.

  Thanks

• November 5, 2012 at 5:26 am

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• kelvin.mullen 32991

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  November 5, 2012 at 5:45 am

  #1556000

  Hi

  Thanks for the quick reply

  The linked servers that are setup on live area all piont and are linked by server name.

  so I am not sure how to re-point the linked servers that I will setup on the dev server to a dev enviroment.

  or am I being a bit dence today,