START SUBSCRIPTION
TO publication-name [ ( subscription-value ) ]
FOR subscriber-id, ...

A SQL Remote subscription is said to be started when publication updates are being sent from the consolidated database to the remote database.

The START SUBSCRIPTION statement is one of a set of statements that manage subscriptions. The CREATE SUBSCRIPTION statement defines the data that the subscriber is to receive. The SYNCHRONIZE SUBSCRIPTION statement ensures that the consolidated and remote databases are consistent with each other. The START SUBSCRIPTION statement is required to start messages being sent to the subscriber.

Data at each end of the subscription must be consistent before a subscription is started. It is recommended that you use the database extraction utility to manage the creation, synchronization, and starting of subscriptions. If you use the database extraction utility, you do not need to execute an explicit START SUBSCRIPTION statement. Also, the Message Agent starts subscriptions once they are synchronized.

DBA authority.

Automatic commit.

• CREATE SUBSCRIPTION statement [SQL Remote]
• REMOTE RESET statement [SQL Remote]
• SYNCHRONIZE SUBSCRIPTION statement [SQL Remote]
• STOP SUBSCRIPTION statement [SQL Remote]
• Extraction utility (dbxtract)
• Starting subscriptions
• Creating multiple remote databases

The following statement starts the subscription of user SamS to the pub_contact publication.

START SUBSCRIPTION TO pub_contact
FOR SamS;