Thanks for taking the time to share your insight and some options for exploration. I've ended up adding a "pre-snapshot" script to the publication that checks for the prerequisites and...

My goal is to allow them to pull all the databases needed via snapshot subscriptions. This prerequisite is, in effect, a "subscription dependency chain" and since the SQL feature doesn't...

Yes sir, my intent was before every application of the snapshot, including the initial. Trying to create a service that allows developers to subscribe and pull a database into their...

In case it wasn't clear, I'm not asking for help resolving the initial error, or how to avoid those errors. Those are expected outcomes based on the configuration of our...