Name

REPL_INIT_SNAPSHOT — Initializes a bi-directional snapshot publication

Synopsis

None REPL_INIT_SNAPSHOT ( in server varchar ,
in item varchar ,
in type integer ,
in how_many integer );

Description

This procedure should be used to initialize a bi-directional snapshot publication.

[Note] Note:

This function should be run on publisher.

Parameters

server

The name of the server defined with REPL_SNP_SERVER() . The name of the server can be obtained using REPL_SERVER_NAME() function.

item

Item is a DAV collection or table name.

type

Type is used to denote the type of Item: 1 if item is a DAV collection, or 2 if item is a table name.

how_many

This parameter specifies the number of copied rows per transaction during doing initial copy in table case (when type is 2).

Return Types

None.

Examples

Example24.345.Initializing bi-directional snapshot subscription

The following statement does initial copy of data for bi-directional snapshot subscription of server with DSN 'localhost:1121' for table 'Demo.demo.Shippers':

SQL> DB.DBA.REPL_INIT_SNAPSHOT (REPL_SERVER_NAME ('localhost:1121'), 'Demo.demo.Shippers', 2);