How can the replication meta data table differ from the properties of the publication through the interface; for instance ...
SELECT destination_owner
FROM distribution..MSarticles
Yet, when selecting the article properties from the interface of the properties for the publication, it has a different schema. So in case one, the destination_owner is One while in actual properties the owner is Two.
What I see is if the destination_owner from MSarticles is NULL, it means that the owner is the same as the source_owner. Yet, I'm seeing a situation where the two are reporting different destination owners.