In the course of administering a transactional replication architecture a number of error conditions can occur. Some of these errors are related to synchronization and can be remedied via the issuance of a reinitialization command or stopping and starting the replication agents. Others are not so straightforward and require replication be dropped and recreated. Some still require the publisher database be recreated. This last case are more often the case of ghosts in replicid="fragment-6615">