Real Time Database Replication for Increased Business Efficiencies
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 Thus there is a need for a system to maintain, store, and manage data along with replacing old and outdated data.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...