not msde

Michelle - thanks!  i did try this also.  but it didn't make a dent.  i think i've narrowed it down to a hardware issue with my SAN. 

tell me if...

looks like you are trying to insert a duplicate value in a column(s) with a unique index on your merged database. 

my questions are:

Do these 2 tables need to be...

great information ... thanks! 

this is how i ended up fixing the problem:  i have 2 subscriptions on my subscriber.  once i deleted both of them, i was able to...

i'm already using separate filegroups for my text data - a new one every week.

this is my first foray into working with very large, high volume databases.  so, this is...

thanks Carl and Jeff ... your suggestions make sense.  hopefully i won't see that issue again!