We have a couple of laptop subscribers that are timing out or they are
stopping a synch before it finishes due to a long synch time. Is this
damaging anything? We seem to be losing records or getting conflicts
because of this. Thanks.
p.s. Merge replication SQL 2k and MSDE.

David

Can you enable logging to determine exactly why they are timing out?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/312292/en-us

There are two possible issues - you have too many merge agents running
concurrently and need to limit the number of them (make sure you set the
StartQueueTimeout setting to something larger 120 s or so), or the amount of
data you need to merge or the merge process is lengthy - set QueryTimeout to
something larger than 300.


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