A subscription instructs Replication Server to copy data from primary tables to specified replicate databases. If you create a replication definition for a table at Replication Server, you must create a subscription for that table replication definition at the replicate database. Similarly, if you create a function replication definition for a stored procedure, you must create a subscription for that function replication definition at the replicate database. However, you do not need to create subscriptions for table or function replication definitions that update primary databases.
Refer to Chapter 11, “Managing Subscriptions” for more information.
