How to remove a table from Replication

Question

Version: SQL 2008 R2
Problem: I have a user who wants to remove table, but when she tries to remove it ( drop the table), she gets an error:
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MSG 3724, Level 16, State 2, Line 6: Cannot drop the table, 'dbo.<table name>' because it is being used for replication.
MSG 2714, Level 16, State 6, Line 2
There is already an object named '<table name>' in the database.
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To investigate, I saw the following:
In the SSMS---> Replcation---> Local Publication--> [XYZ].Pub_XYZ
[SERVER Name].[XYZ_Replication]
Local Subscriptions:
[Reference DB].[Server\Instance].[Instance Name]:ABC.ABC_TO_XYZ.Reference DB).
How do I remove that table? Do I need to edit Replication? How? Which one?
Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

You need to reinitialize the subscription.
If a subscription is not synchronized within the maximum distribution retention period (default of 72 hours) and there are changes in the distribution database that have not been delivered to the Subscriber, the subscription will be marked deactivated by the Distribution
clean up job that runs on the Distributor. The subscription must be reinitialized.
If a subscription is not synchronized within the publication retention period (default of 336 hours), the subscription will expire and be dropped by theExpired subscription clean up job that runs on the Publisher. The subscription must
be recreated and synchronized.
If a push subscription expires, it is completely removed, but pull subscriptions are not. You must clean up pull subscriptions at the Subscriber. For more information, see Delete
a Pull Subscription.
--Prashanth