Chapter 24

Implementing Replication

TOPICS COVERED IN THIS CHAPTER:

image SQL Server Replication
image Importing and Exporting Data

While Chapter 23, “Database Mirroring and Snapshots,” covered database mirroring and log shipping, which can both be used to perform data distribution, this chapter focuses first on the most common method used to distribute data for active use. In most cases, the mirror copy of a database is used only if the primary copy fails. Also, when log shipping is used, the receiving server is typically used to bring the database copy ...

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