Hi thanks a lot for brining those points.

1) The size of the transaction log during the batch - it will not shrink even if you do transaction log backups as...

Snapsot is out of scope because database size is in terabytes so we have to have transactional replication. there are going to be 3 subscriber in future starting with one.

Thanks

thanks for such a detailed reply.

I agree with your sequence to steps.

for point 5. i was thinking may be some time log reader and ditribution may deadlock at distribuiton database...