Sybase DC38133-01-0902-01 manual For more information, see Create Subscription statement on, 140

CREATE SUBSCRIPTION

TO pub_orders_samuel_singer

FOR SamS

Subscriptions with a To subscribe a user to a publication, if that publication does have a subscription expression subscription expression, you need the following information:

♦User ID The user who is being subscribed to the publication. This user must have been granted remote permissions.

♦Publication name The name of the publication to which the user is being subscribed.

♦Subscription value The value that is to be tested against the subscription expression of the publication. For example, if a publication has the name of a column containing an employee ID as a subscription expression, the value of the employee ID of the subscribing user must be provided in the subscription. The subscription value is always a string.

The following statement creates a subscription for Samuel Singer (user ID SamS, employee ID 856) to the pub_orders publication, defined with a subscription expression sales_rep, requesting the rows for Samuel Singer’s own sales:

CREATE SUBSCRIPTION

TO pub_orders ( ’856’ )

FOR SamS

Starting a subscription In order to receive and apply updates properly, each subscriber needs to have an initial copy of the data. The synchronization process is discussed in “Synchronizing databases” on page 189 .

☞For more information, see “CREATE SUBSCRIPTION statement” on page 358.

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