I have a db structure as follows for replication
DB1----transactional replication------->DB2------merge replication---->DB3
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|--------merge replication---->DB4
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|--------merge replication---->DB5
and so on
Can someone please tell me how to increase the performance as performance from db1 to db2 is critical.
Also, what is the maximum number of publications i can make on DB2?
Is there any other appropriate way to do such kind of set up?