Subscriptions are always defined within the context of a database connection; therefore, each subscription is associated with a specific replicate database connection. Each replicate database connection can contain many subscriptions.
Subscriptions allow you to organize replicate articles. Before you can create a replicate article, you must first create a subscription to contain the article. Each subscription can contain many articles.
Each subscription refers to (subscribes to) a specific publication. A publication can be subscribed to by any number of subscriptions, in any number of replicate database connections. Each replicate article within a subscription subscribes to a primary article in the publication to which that subscription refers.
For information about managing subscriptions in Sybase Central, see the following topics: