November 2006
Intermediate to advanced
1232 pages
34h 10m
English
Before jumping into configuring and using replication, let’s look at a few replication concepts. First we’ll look at the "publish and subscribe" metaphor and the three types of replication, then we’ll examine replication data and data propagation, and last we’ll discuss replication agents.
SQL Server 2005 replication is based on the "publish and subscribe" metaphor first used to implement replication in SQL Server 6.0 and enhanced in SQL Server 7.0 and SQL Server 2000. This metaphor is built on the concepts of publishers, subscribers, and distributors. A publisher is a database that makes data available for replication. A subscriber is a server that receives replicated data and stores the replicated database. ...
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