Hi everyone,
first off, as a little background. we just had an ecommerce solution set up for our web site. I am not a SQL DBA but I am learning on the fly.
I have a MS SQL server 2008 r2 standard, with two DBs being replicated to a location offsite. one live DB and one test. one of the replication objects in the TEST DB is broken (marked inactive) and apparently has been so for quite some time. I am unsure why it originally stopped replicating, or what caused it to become inactive. I see that the warnings tell me to reinitialize the subscription, but I want to make sure that doing so has NO chance of affecting my live database in any way. even if reinitializing doesnt ultimately fix my test DB, i just dont want to break the live DB replication by trying to reinitialize this subscription. I appreciate any input you guys might have....