Microsoft® SQL Server 2012 Unleashed

The Publishing Subscriber Replication Model

In the publishing subscriber scenario, as shown in Figure 40.12, the publication server also has to act as a distribution server to one subscriber. This subscriber, in turn, immediately publishes the data to any number of other subscribers. The configuration depicted here does not use a remote distribution configuration option but serves the same distribution model purpose. This scenario is best used when a slow or expensive network link exists between the original publishing server and all the other potential subscribers. This allows the initial (critical) publication of the data to be distributed from the original publishing server to that single subscriber across the slow, unpredictable, or expensive ...