SYNCHRONIZE SUBSCRIPTION
TO publication-name [ ( subscription-value ) ]
FOR remote-user, ...

A SQL Remote subscription is said to be synchronized when the data in the remote database is consistent with that in the consolidated database, so that publication updates sent from the consolidated database to the remote database will not result in conflicts and errors.

To synchronize a subscription, a copy of the data in the publication at the consolidated database is sent to the remote database. The SYNCHRONIZE SUBSCRIPTION statement does this through the message system. It is recommended that where possible you use the database extraction utility (dbxtract) instead to synchronize subscriptions without using a message system.

DBA authority

Automatic commit.

• CREATE SUBSCRIPTION statement [SQL Remote]
• START SUBSCRIPTION statement [SQL Remote]
• STOP SUBSCRIPTION statement [SQL Remote]
• Extraction utility (dbxtract)
• Synchronize with the SQL Remote Message Agent (dbremote)
• Subscription resynchronization
• Synchronize

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

SYNCHRONIZE SUBSCRIPTION
   TO pub_contact
   FOR SamS;