You administer several Microsoft SQL Server 2012 datab

ase servers. Merge replication has been configured for an application that is distributed across offices throughout a wide area network (WAN). Many of the tables involved in replication use the XML and varchar (max) data types. Occasionally, merge replicat

ion fails due to timeout errors. You need to reduce the occurrence of these timeout errors. What should you do?

A. Set the Merge agent on the problem subscribers to use the slow link agent profile.

B. Create a snapshot publication, and reconfigure the pro

blem subscribers to use the snapshot publication.

C. Change the Merge agent on the problem subscribers to run continuously.

D. Set the Remote Connection Timeout on the Publisher to 0.

Explanation: