HDS Issues and Limitations

Learn about some of the known issues and limitations with the HDS feature in Replication Server.

• Source Value Exceeds Target Datatype Bounds
  The datatype translations provided by Sybase, specify that the thread attempting a translation where the source value exceeds the bounds of the target datatype must be stopped.
• Exact Numeric Datatype Issues
  There may be problems with exact numeric datatypes when the values replicated are at the boundaries (maximum or minimum values) of what is supported by the datatype definitions.
• Numeric Translation and Identity Columns in Microsoft SQL Server
  Replication Server function strings to set identity insert off and on work in Microsoft SQL Server because it supports identity columns in the same manner as Adaptive Server.