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From: Paul Ibison (Paul.Ibison_at_Pygmalion.Com)
Date: 02/28/05


Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 07:51:39 -0800

This article might help a bit:
http://www.replicationanswers.com/Standby.htm
For bidirectional replication there are several options:
merge, transactional with updating subscribers and
snapshot with upd subscribers. I would recommend
transactional with queued updating subscribers for your
scenario. It copes well with identity columns, won't
change the table schema, and to reverse the changes when
the production box is later available, you can run the
queue reader agent.
 HTH,
 Paul Ibison SQL Server MVP, www.replicationanswers.com
  (recommended sql server 2000 replication book:
  http://www.nwsu.com/0974973602p.html)



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