• The only thing about replication in the Books Online is about disabling indexes. I've never heard you couldn't rebuild indexes because of replication. I know I used to use the old DBCC REBUILDINDEX when I had replicated databases with no issues. I don't recall if I used the new ALTER INDEX syntax or not. But there's not even a hint of an issue in the BOL, so I'm pretty sure it's OK.

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