The situation is this: We have a SQL Server replication subscriber database which receives replicated data from one of our core OLTP systems which we use as a source to populate our data warehouse. (also our OLTP database is hosted by a third party vendor).
To increase performance on the subscriber, I'd like to delete data rows which are older than a data retention limit we have established. We cannot do this in the publisher database and have the deletes replicate down because this would be cost prohibitive (vendor) and it may aggravate other business units using the front end.
I'd like to know if I can go ahead and perform the data retention deletes on the subscriber database without either (a) breaking replication somehow or (b) having replication simply re-populate those deleted rows. Is this possible?
