hanging on one table

Hi,
sometimes (often) my merge replication agent hang on this step:
Processing article 'table1'...
or (occasionally):
The merge process is cleaning up meta data in database 'db1'...
table1 is a large table (22 fields, approx 400.000 rows) with no Primary Key.
I don't have any idea with 'meta data' errors.
After this hang/error we always have this happen again the next time we tried again.
what happen with this? pls help...
TIA
echo
can you post the exact error message you are getting?
Also right click on your problem merge agent and select Agent Properties,
click on steps, and then click on run agent. Then click Edit and at the end
of the commands you find there, hit the space bar, and type -QueryTimeOut
600
Then restart your merge agent.
Hilary Cotter
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> Hi,
> sometimes (often) my merge replication agent hang on this step:
> Processing article 'table1'...
> or (occasionally):
> The merge process is cleaning up meta data in database 'db1'...
> table1 is a large table (22 fields, approx 400.000 rows) with no Primary
Key.
> I don't have any idea with 'meta data' errors.
> After this hang/error we always have this happen again the next time we
tried again.
> what happen with this? pls help...
> TIA
> echo