20.7. Summary
As much as there was to take in this chapter, this really was something of an introduction to replication. We covered a lot of the considerations for architects reasonably well, but the scope of replication is such that entire books are written on just that topic. Indeed, there is much to consider in order to build just the right model for complex scenarios. The good news is that, if you really grasped this chapter, then you are prepared for perhaps 90 percent of what you are likely to ever face. Time and the proverbial "school of hard knocks" will teach you the rest.
If you're taken anything from this chapter, I hope that it's an understanding of some of the general problems that replication can solve and how replication works best when you plan ahead both in terms of topology planning and in your applications general architecture (making sure it understands the special needs of replication).
In our next chapter, we'll take a look at yet another "extension" area for SQL Server — full-text indexing.
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