There is a post from 2010 about this which has been dormant since 2013. I'm hoping that a refresh of this idea catches some new eyes! I work with SDE replica management almost daily at my job. It can be extremely cumbersome to simply add a single new feature class/table to an existing replica. This includes: Unregistering the replicas, deleting out potentially large amounts of data from the child database which can be problematic with data locks, stopping Web Services (subsequently WebMaps) in which the data may be involved, paying careful attention to any scripts in which the data may be involved, etc. The risk of something going awry is quite high with how complex it can be to recreate a replica. It takes 10 seconds to unregister a feature class/table from an existing replica...I'd love there to be a quicker, easier and less risky way of adding to one!
