Replication setup

How many articles can take part in merge replication?
I need to replicate about 200 tables. From them 25 are common for all my
subscribers and do not need to be filtered. Other I plan to filter with
static filters.
Is there benefit to allocate this 25 common tables in separate publication
or it will be better to include them in all publications where tables with
filters are placed?
Ideally you would have a single publication. There is no performance impact
by having multiple publications. If you are going to have multiple
publications (perhaps a publication for each article), you should group
articles which are related (PK-FK) relationships into the same publication.
Hilary Cotter
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"massa" <massa@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> How many articles can take part in merge replication?
> I need to replicate about 200 tables. From them 25 are common for all my
> subscribers and do not need to be filtered. Other I plan to filter with
> static filters.
> Is there benefit to allocate this 25 common tables in separate publication
> or it will be better to include them in all publications where tables with
> filters are placed?
>