Skip snapshot delivery in transactional replication

Question

When you get the msg "The initial snapshot for publication is not yet available......"
The distrib agent is expecting a snapshot to deliver but the snapshot is not available because it was intentionally cancelled.
Is there a way to reset this situation so that the distrib agent continues to deliver commands without applying the snapshot and without the need to reinint the sub?
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Answer 1

Hi Michelle,
Your test simulates the issue I am raising.
I run into a situation where the schema generated by the snapshot agent was for all articles and this is not what we  needed (we needed a snap just for 2 new articles).
I therefore looked for a way to cause the distrib agent to skip that snapshot delivery while delivering the data (all the pending commands that were in the distribution).
So I did not want to reinit the sub (large database and was not a good option or something we planned for) and I did not want to loose the pending commands.
Finally, when no other solution found, we started removing articles one by one (selecting the smallest tables in size) and after a few articles the distribution agent
started to deliver data and did not look for a snapshot.
-Yaniv
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