Great, nice to know really 🙂

It is a very good question. Got it wrong though 🙂

Good one 🙂

Thanks for the question. Easy one. 🙂

This is a good question and definetly worth more than a point.:-)

This question is worth more than a point 😀

Yes, no other choice 🙁

Interesting question, nice to see some comments after so many years.

Good question. Thank you.

Is it possible to test this scenario on some test environment, atleast we could verify if merge replication would work fine or not across versions. I guess this scenario may...

Could you drop replication if it is not needed.

I guess it shouldn't matter if subsribers remain at 2000.

GilaMonster (3/17/2011)

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SQL sure thinks it's replicated. If you are 100% sure it's not, try the following.

Create a transactional replication publication.

Publish a single table (a small one)

Stop the log reader

Run sp_repldone...

Yes, you can do it. If you could share the script you are using, we could assist you.

I don't prefer questions like this and the ones related to Visual Studio. 🙂

j_baldwinson (3/17/2011)

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you cant uninstall a SQL 2005 service pack. To remove an SP you need to uninstall SQL, re-install, restore the database backups and server configurations.

installation guide just posted at...