Question on Data out of sync

Greetings,
Here is the scenario: Server A is Prod, Server B is reporting or
history
Server A does Transactional replication to Server B. Server A gets
records purged at the given point of retention. So as you can tell
Server B will have much more data than Server A. Today, I get the
dreaded call of that data in server A does not seem to be at Server B.
We may have had some issues with replication a couple of weeks ago but
it appeared that they were corrected and replication has been working
fine since.
So , to my questions
Is there any way of pushing over all data on Server A to B to make
sure they are in sync without losing the older data as well?
Any good way of comparing the data in Server A to Server B without
having to go row by row through each table?
I am afraid that we may be out of synch and would like to recify it
without having to drop all replication, bcp out and then bcp back in
to get them back in sync. As you can imagine that is a major headache
and would be my last resort. Any and all ideas are welcome.
Thanks,
MM
You could also have a look at Innovartis DB Ghost at
http://www.innovartis.co.uk/ which can compare & synchronize your
database schema AND data (plus build, verify & version control). I have
found you can use SQL Enterprise Manager to generate scripts to quickly
drop & re-create replication and run DB Ghost to ship your missing rows.
John McGrath MCSE
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