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                                         csaha 
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                                             Posted - 2012-09-13 : 09:54:33
                                            
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                                            | The publisher needs to be registered with the distributor and the distributor also needs to be registered with the publisher. Does that mean that in the system databases we will see distributor databases created in distributor and publisher and the publisher distributor databases files are mapped to distributor database. | 
                                             
                                         
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                                     csaha 
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                                            Posted - 2012-09-13 : 10:10:11
                                          
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                                          | Sorry, I was actually navigating to the wrong instance in the management studio.  | 
                                         
                                        
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