database replication tools

In today’s digital business environment, systems have to be available round the clock and even a few minutes of Internet outage can lead to colossal losses. For critical sectors such as healthcare, technology, and finance, it is important to have the infrastructure in place that will ensure quick recovery of data. Often Government and corporate mandates require the availability of speedy recovery procedures as part of compliance processes. Though most businesses have plans in place for continuity and disaster recovery, completely restoring data and systems after a crash can take a long time, resulting in massive setbacks for enterprises. To tide over this issue and meet such challenges, Snowflake has announced Snowflake Database Replication and Snowflake Database Failover. These assure high availability and quick data recovery regardless of which cloud provider the business operates in.  Replication to Snowflake offers instant access to data in the event of an outage. Snowflak...

Massive amounts of data are generated by modern businesses today with constant challenges to keep data online and accessible 24x7. Thus there is a need for a system to maintain, store, and manage data along with replacing old and outdated data. Of all the possibilities available today, SQL Server Replication is best placed to accommodate all these demands. SQL Server Replication copies and distributes data and database from one source to another. When this is programmed to run constantly it is SQL real-time replication of data. Apart from it, systems can be set to process and copy databases at fixed pre-decided intervals. There are several replication techniques such as one-way, one-to-many, many-to-one, and bi-directional, all of which leads to datasets being in sync with each other. One of the key tools for real-time database replication is transactional replication. In this method, data is copied from the publisher to one or more subscribers once and thereafter, transactions ar...