Chapter 8. Replication
Replication is a popular feature of SQL Server because it allows you to make copies of your data and keep them synchronized with a standardized process that can be automatic or manual. How does replication fit into the high availability picture? This chapter discusses the two ways to think about replication: using replication to make your databases available and making your replication architecture available.
Using Replication to Make a Database Available
As noted in Chapter 3, although transactional replication or merge replication can be used to make a database available, they would be third on the list of Microsoft SQL Server technology choices. For the purposes of high availability, if you had to choose one form of replication, ...
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