New Publication Wizard encountered one or more errors while retrieving the list of articles

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New Publication Wizard encountered one or more errors while retrieving the list of articles

philcruz

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April 4, 2006 at 11:21 am

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I'm trying to set up transactional replication. When I launch the wizard I get the error below. Any ideas?
-Phil
TITLE: New Publication Wizard
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New Publication Wizard encountered one or more errors while retrieving the list of articles on 'mydatabase'. The list of articles may not be complete.
For help, click: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?ProdName=Microsoft+SQL+Server&ProdVer=9.00.1399.06&EvtSrc=Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.UI.PubWizardErrorSR&EvtID=CantInitArticleList&LinkId=20476
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
An exception occurred while executing a Transact-SQL statement or batch. (Microsoft.SqlServer.ConnectionInfo)
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Invalid column name 'options'. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 207)
For help, click: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?ProdName=Microsoft+SQL+Server&ProdVer=09.00.1399&EvtSrc=MSSQLServer&EvtID=207&LinkId=20476
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BUTTONS:
OK
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philcruz Ten Centuries Points: 1004 More actions · Answer 1

I found the problem. The database was originally a SQL2000 db that was being replicated. It still had some tables like sysarticles. I dropped those tables and it's fine now.