I tried the [] beforehand, no luck there..

problem is the database had replication dropped, and the the database was copied across to an SQL2000 server. The MSMerge_contents doesn't even...

Nothing worked, in the end i deleted all the conflict tables and the replication tables in the database, dettached it, uninstalled SQL server, reinstalled it, and reattached it... not ideal,...

The article is called MatrixCellDynamic, and I just tried the sp_dropmergepublication again, message back from query anylser after 20 mins was :

Server: Msg 9002, Level 17, State 2, Procedure sp_MSarticlecleanup,...

Done all of that, subscriptions went a long time ago, issued the instruction to drop the publication as per BOL and my own experience.. but it comes back to the...

I am trying to stop a database being a publication. Somewhere there must be a reference to the fact that the database is still a publcation. And it...