I have a situation where in I need to remove 1 column from transactional replication without actually dropping the column from table. Is it possible to remove it? When I try to do it from GUI it directly gives option to reinitialize the replication which I don't want to do it.
As a workaround what I am planning to do is remove article from replication and then re-add it with required columns and run snapshot for only 1 article.
The environment is SQL Server 2012. Table is of 100GB.
Please let me know if you need any further details.