Conflict cleaning, reassurance please

Question

I have around 3200 regular conflicts in an single article of 40 articles the other 39 have no conflicts.
today I have 3,100 with no discernable difference between the table dbo.MSmerge_conflict_Orc_Pub_My_Table and the users table My_Schema.My_Table
Firstly
why?
I understand that somewhere in my app I must be updating all these rows BUT is there a hidden date or logging field reporting a change in the row?
I am using 'subscriber always wins' on this table.
Secondly
I am deleting at the publisher, the contents of MSmerge_conflict_Orc_Pub_tblRecipe and MSmerge_conflicts_info where there are no changes, leaving me with the few rows which do need attention.
Is this enough of should I do something else?
What happens at the subscriber end?
I do understand this is not recommended but I want to do this so I can concentrate on genuine conflicts
jnc

Answer 1

Hi,
According to the image, I understand that conflict winner and conflict loser have the same value in conflict viewer.
Hilary has explained that in his original replay.
“What happens is when you look in conflict viewer you see the current state of the conflict winner and the state of the conflict loser WHEN THE CONFLICT WAS LOGGED!!!!
This means when you look at the conflict that data in the conflict winner may have changed to match with the conflict losers version.”
Here are the steps to reproduce:
1. Created a Merge replication with an article table.
2. Updated a column Tool on both publisher and subscriber. Then, clicked View Conflicts, I could see one conflict in this table. See:
3. Set the value to t2 from the subscriber or publisher, the Conflict viewer displayed:
Thanks.
Tracy Cai
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