NOT FOR REPLICATION

NOT FOR REPLICATION indicates that when a record is replicated to this table, any value that is inserted into the identity column via the replication agent keeps it’s original value from the source system, but any records added locally still increment the identity value.

All about “Not for Replication”

“Not for Replication” is a property which can be set for different objects like Check constraints, Foreign Key constraints, Triggers , Identity columns etc while using SQL Server Replication. Feature used when the DBA would like the transactions to behave differently when the changes are being made by the Replication Agents as compared to changes coming from a normal user transaction.