SQL Server® 2008 Administration: Real World Skills for MCITP Certification and Beyond

SQL Server Replication

When you want the same data to be available in multiple physical locations or on multiple server instances, you may choose to implement data replication. Data replication, in SQL Server 2008, should not be conceptualized as database replication, because you can replicate part of the database and you are not required to replicate the entire database. Instead, you create publications that include articles. The articles are tables and other objects that you want to replicate. A publication could include an entire database, but it doesn't have to; this is why you should think of it as data replication and not database replication. In this section, you'll learn about the different replication types, replication roles (such as ...