SQL Replication allows you to replicate user-defined Stored Procedures code to subscribers similar to replicating tables. When the sp is modified, the new schema/script is transferred to the subscriber. This ensures all subscribers have the most recent version of the SP. Transactional Replication also allows you to setup a subscriber using a backup of the
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I meet with a customer today planning for Peer-2-Peer Replication in conjunction with Microsoft Amalga, our Hospital Information System solution. I thought others would benefit from some of the Q&A that were raised in this meeting. I hope you too find these helpful in your projects. 1. How to monitor replication? >>>Tracer Tokens can be
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I’m developing in-depth training on Change Data Capture and created this BLOG posting as a reference for BOL topics and Web links I found helpful while researching CDC. I’ll update this posting with more links as time goes by. I hope you too find these helpful. Basics of Change Data Capture (great chart and overview
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Here is a quick list of CDC Best Practices. Search “CDC” tags for other BLOG posting on designing, supporting and troubleshooting CDC. These recommendation come from various sources including the MSDN CDC White Paper, a recommended read for anyone interesting in tuning CDC performance. Recommendation: Try to avoid scenarios where a row needs to be
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The Microsoft Knowledge Base contains the following article for setting up a SQL 2000 Subscriber using Backup/Restore. Once the subscriber is restored sp_scriptpublicationcustomprocs is executed to create the subscriber Replication SPs. 320499 How to manually synchronize replication subscriptions by using backup or restore http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;320499 These steps should be modified for SQL 2005/2008 which automatically creates
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