>>Dan,
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>>SET ANSI_NULL is for the current session. To set ANSI NULL option for DB use sp_dboption system stored procedure.
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>Thanks for the quick response Sergey!
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>That worked. Sort of, DATABASEPROPERTYEX([database],'IsAnsiNullsEnabled') now returns 1, but the Merge Agent still returns an error that "SET options have incorrect settings 'ANSI_NULL'" I think this must mean that the agent is still connecting to the subscriber with ANSI_NULL OFF.
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>Well, the next thing I can try is re-creating the publication, but that will have to wait for the weekend.

Didn't play with replication yet so cannot help ypu.