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                                         Craig Taylor 
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                                             Posted - 2012-10-10 : 06:48:28
                                            
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                                            | We have a database on server1 which has a series of stored procedures that perform select and inserts into another database on a linked server on server2. The database on server2 is setup as a merge publication for replication externally. I have removed the publication from server2 and I can now run all the stored procedures successfully and it only takes approx 45 minutes to complete.If I re-add the publication the process takes about 3 hours sends the SQL server cpu usage into overdrive and the procedures fail with: Msg 3970, Level 16, State 2, Procedure MSmerge_ins_B59B83C7DBBD4E82985EE7A62558E4EE, Line 31This operation conflicts with another pending operation on this transaction. The operation failedI think this is something to do with identity range settings on the publication, but I don't fully understand how I should be adjusting this. I also don't understand why it is also more demanding on server resources and takes so much longerThanksCraig | 
                                             
                                         
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