A lil confused from BOL

These are 2 different things.
For (A) this is the length of time that transactions are
retained in MSrepl_commands before the cleanup agent can
remove them. If all subscribers have synchronized, the
commands are removed before this period. This is
different if you have anonymous subscribers of course.
For (B) this means that if a subscription doesn't
synchronize within the said period, it is marked as
inactive and must be reinitialized.
Rgds,
Paul Ibison SQL Server MVP, www.replicationanswers.com
(recommended sql server 2000 replication book:
http://www.nwsu.com/0974973602p.html)
So if (A) time is up.i.e. after 72 hrs , the cleanup agent would anyways
come in and delete all transactions hence making the subscription in a way
inactive and if you look at the publication properties, it has the 72 hrs
instead of the 336 hrs that (B) talks about..
"Paul Ibison" <Paul.Ibison@.Pygmalion.Com> wrote in message
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> These are 2 different things.
> For (A) this is the length of time that transactions are
> retained in MSrepl_commands before the cleanup agent can
> remove them. If all subscribers have synchronized, the
> commands are removed before this period. This is
> different if you have anonymous subscribers of course.
> For (B) this means that if a subscription doesn't
> synchronize within the said period, it is marked as
> inactive and must be reinitialized.
> Rgds,
> Paul Ibison SQL Server MVP, www.replicationanswers.com
> (recommended sql server 2000 replication book:
> http://www.nwsu.com/0974973602p.html)
>