It should also be noted that the collation settings affect how the case of characters (among other things)  is used in comparison operations.

For example, in a case sensitive collation, I...

I believe that the SQL server is communicating with the RDA components on IIS, not directly with CE.  While it is possible, it is not too likely that the IP...

Forgot to mention:  I use Ethereal fior network tracing

It's free and it works very well   http://www.ethereal.com

OOPS.  wrong button.

Hopefully you can set up the client side of the tunnel endpoint in such a way as to be able to capture packets from that side.  If not,...

I suspect that it is indeed a network problem, but I think that it would be a good idea to go back and double-check.   Confirm that everything works as expected...

So you're saying that the Merge Agent on the SQL server indicates success, but the CE side fails?  I love it when that happens.

Are you able to get at the...

Hello,

Something ATE the post I just tried to make. 

You should only need to be able to communicate to your IIS server through the tunnel.  This IIS server is the...

I believe that you need to be able to communicate to the RDA "proxy" server (The one running IIS with the replication DLLs registered) on TCP port 80.  The RDA server then...

Hello,

I believe that Named Pipes would require that the following ports be open on the firewall:

 UDP...

Write two procedures.  One for each table.

Then create a third procedure that decides which of the other two to call based upon the input parameter. I think this will eliminate...

I would also check http://support.microsoft.com/kb/293177/

jg

I believe that 80 columns is wider than is supported by default with either Exchange, Outlook, or both.  They will break lines apart for you because they know it is...

One GOTCHA with the above approach:

If any jobs have T-SQL steps, and any of these steps contain the `GO' Batch separator, the script will not work on the target server...

There is not a slipstreamed install for SP3.

But it no problem.  Here's the link:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;329329

jg

I would estimate that you would see better performance by doing the following:

Create computed columns on the table with the folowing:

Price * 2

and

date + 2 months

Then place indexes on those...