Reputation: 457
I was wondering if there are any problems with having a SQL Server 2012 replication publisher together with some SQL Server 2005 replication subscribers?
Does anybody have some documentation from Microsoft regarding this?
I'm asking because a colleague of mine keeps telling us that it will not work.
Does it also go the other way around? (2012 = Subscriber & 2005 = Publisher)
Thanks Zarkos
Upvotes: 3
Views: 4538
Reputation: 37388
Depends on the type of replication that you're using...
A Subscriber to a transactional publication can be any version within two versions of the Publisher version. For example: a SQL Server 2005 Publisher running can have SQL Server 2012 Subscribers; and a SQL Server 2012 Publisher can have SQL Server 2005 Subscribers.
A Subscriber to a merge publication can be any version less than or equal to the Publisher version.
Upvotes: 2