While trying to apply an upgrade to a custom ERP application it errors when it tries to drop database tables that are being replicated. We replicate our database offsite to Azure. Works wonderfully. However I need to know how to go about disabling replication while the ERP upgrade runs. I tried turning off the Log Reader Agent and stopping the Subscriptions but that was not enough. Any ideas? Is it better to completely break the replication and start from scratch after the upgrade? Not that it would kill me to do so but I certainly hope that is not the answer. There must be a better way?
TIA