Stored Procedures Used for Subscription Administration

The following stored procedures are used by replication for subscription administration tasks.

Stored procedure Description
sp_addsubscription Adds a subscription to a specified article and sets the subscriber's status.
sp_changesubscription On a subscription server, changes subscription properties for an article or a publication.
sp_changesubstatus Changes the status of an existing subscriber.
sp_dropsubscription On the publication server, drops subscriptions to a particular article, publication, or set of subscriptions.
sp_helpsubscription Lists subscription information associated with a particular publication, article, subscriber, or set of subscriptions.
sp_subscribe Remotely adds a subscription to a particular article within a publication.
sp_unsubscribe Remotely cancels a subscription to a particular article within a publication, a whole publication, or to all publications.
sp_helpreplicationdb For an individual database, indicates whether or not the database is subscribed (is a destination database).

For more information about these stored procedures, see the Microsoft SQL Server Transact-SQL Reference.