About the identity column, I just truncated the table on pricipal and inserted few rows and failed over to the other server. When i started inserting the rows again the value jumped into 1000s. Everytime i failover to the other it's incrementing to 1000's.

fidfname

6pears

7pears

1002pears---failed over

1003pears

1010pears

2002pears--failed over

2003pears

2004pears