SQL Remote User's Guide
Deploying and Synchronizing Databases
Synchronizing databases
Extracting large numbers of subscriptions, or synchronizing subscriptions to large, frequently-used tables, can slow down database access for other users. You may wish to extract such subscriptions when the database is not in heavy use. This happens automatically if you use a SEND AT clause with a quiet time specified.
Synchronization applies to an entire subscription. There is currently no straightforward way of synchronizing a single table.
For performance tips for Adaptive Server Enterprise users using a subscription-list column, see Tuning extraction performance and Tuning extraction performance for shared rows.