Configuring Replication Publishing

After the distribution database has been successfully installed, or you have been given permission to publish to a remote distribution server, you can then configure a server to be a publisher.

NOTE

To set up SQL Server as a publisher, you must have one of the following:

  • A local distribution database

  • Access to a remote distribution database

If you have a local distribution database on your server (that is, your server is acting as a distribution server), you can perform the following:

  • Set distribution working directory

  • Allow other servers access to your distribution database for publishing

Both distribution servers and publisher servers can control which servers allow access to published articles and which databases ...

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