Maintenance Plan on Replication Subscriber
Do I treat the subscribers just like a normal database and perform maintenance via a maintenance plan on them - or should they be left alone / treated any differently?


Yes, subscriber databases should be treated as regular user databases &amp; you should intelligently perform Index maintenance (and do backups as well) . Infact, replication does not replicate index maintenance. Also, from BOL :



One suggestion - please do not use maintenance plan !