Conflicts will happen in Merge Replication. There is no error on synchronization so we need to know when this occurs, before users complain! You can continually refresh the conflict viewer all day if this is your thing š or we find something slightly more sophisticated. So,Ā I have used 2 methods:
(1) simply check the table “msmerge_conflicts_info” using a select statement. If there are records in the table send an email to the support team using sp_send_dbmail. This can easily be scripted into a regularly-running job.
(2) create a custom alert. This is not as daunting as it seems. Here is one below so you can see which counters to use…
The response will be an email to the operator defined for the alert – just have an operator for theĀ support team. Now there are drop-downs in this interface there’s no problem creating this alert.