Transaction replication failing at creation of Publication

Question

Hi Gurus, I am facing very uncommon issue  when setting up transactional replication. My instance is running on MSSQL 2005 SP3 and same instance act as Distributor and Publisher.
Step1: Created Distributor with no issues.
Step2: Enable Pblisher - Same instance and a database under this instance runnning in full recovery mode.
Step3: Create Publication - Went thru all the steps and selected couple tables(articles) to create initial snapshot. After provide a name to the publication, click ok - its throwing following error for both articles:
TITLE: New Publication Wizard
SQL Server Management Studio could not create article 'abc_Table'.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
An exception occurred while executing a Transact-SQL statement or batch. (Microsoft.SqlServer.ConnectionInfo)
The article 'abc_table ' does not exist. Changed database context to '<publisher_DB> '. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 20027)
Both tables have primary key and available in publisher database. I did setup n number Transactional replications and did not see this kind of error so far. Did not see any help when googled/Binged, Any help is highly appreciated. Thanks in advance for your
help.
Thanks, TTeam

Answer 1

Hi Mohammad, Please see the table structure it is under dbo schema.
CREATE
TABLE [dbo].[busmgt](
[id] [int]
NOT
NULL,
[persid] [nvarchar]
(30)
NULL,
[hier_parent] [binary]
(16)
NULL,
[hier_child] [binary]
(16)
NOT
NULL,
[last_mod_dt] [int]
NULL,
[last_mod_by] [binary]
(16)
NULL,
[cost] [int]
NULL,
[sym] [nvarchar]
(60)
NOT
NULL,
[nx_desc] [nvarchar]
(40)
NULL,
[bm_rep] [int]
NULL,
[ci_rel_type] [int]
NULL,
[tenant] [binary]
(16)
NULL,
[del] [int]
NOT
NULL
DEFAULT
('0'),
CONSTRAINT [PK__busmgt__187915EB]
PRIMARY
KEY
NONCLUSTERED
[id]
ASC
WITH
(PAD_INDEX
=
OFF,
STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE
=
OFF,
IGNORE_DUP_KEY
=
OFF,
ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS
=
ON,
ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS
=
ON)
ON [PRIMARY]
ON [PRIMARY]
Thanks, TTeam