DistributionPublication Object (SQL-DMO)

The DistributionPublication object exposes the properties of a Distributor’s image of a snapshot, transactional, or merge replication publication.

Remarks

For snapshot and transactional replication, a replication Distributor maintains an image of articles defining a publication. The Distributor replicates the articles to Subscribers, enabling one type of replication load balancing.

Use DistributionPublication object methods to monitor merge replication.

There is no requirement that a Microsoft® SQL Server™ installation create Distributor-maintained data images. Snapshot and transactional replication publications created on the Distributor enable one type of third-party, or heterogeneous, replication.

With the DistributionPublication object, you can:

Create a heterogeneous replication publication.
Configure replication agent use.
Remove a heterogeneous replication publication.
Monitor replication agents implementing publications.

For more information about using SQL-DMO in heterogeneous replication, see Programming Transactional and Snapshot Replication from Heterogeneous Data Sources.

Note DistributionPublication object properties are read/write only when using the object to create a distribution publication. When a DistributionPublication object references a Distributor’s image of an existing publication, all properties are read-only.

Methods

BeginAlter Method	EnumSnapshotAgentView Method
CancelAlter Method	EnumSubscriptionViews Method
DoAlter Method	GetAgentsStatus Method (DistributionPublication, DistributionPublisher)
EnumLogReaderAgentView Method	Remove Method (Objects)

Properties

Description Property	PublicationDB Property
ID Property	PublicationType Property
LogReaderAgent Property	SnapshotAgent Property
Name Property	VendorName Property
PublicationAttributes Property