An article is the basic unit of replication and contains either a table or a view to replicate. Articles are gathered together into a publication to be replicated by the replication process. Articles have no symbol in the diagram, but are listed on the Articles tab of a publication property sheet.
An article can contain the following items:
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Columns – contains the table or view columns to replicate (see Columns (DMM)).
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Scripts – specify instructions for executing a specific function in a database (see Event Scripts (DMM)).
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Where Clauses – let you filter rows out of an article to publish.
In the following example, the Contact and Customer articles contain tables with the same names and are included in the Glasgow publication:
