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Hassan
5/31/2006 7:39:30 PM

sql server replication:

Say i want to setup trans replication of DB1 on ServerA to subscriber DB2 on
ServerB

I already have a publication with a few articles being published now.

I want to create 2 new tables with millions of rows and want to replicate
those. Instead of adding it to the same publication and having latency to
the existing articles while the 2 million rows get propagated, I was
thinking of creating another publication just for these 2 tables so that
they would replicate in parallel with the existing publication articles.

I know theres only one Log Reader Agent per database.. But can I have
multiple distribution agents say in my case from DB1 on ServerA to DB2 on
ServerB so that I can have data replicated in parallel for these 2
publications ? If true, is it just default settings or is there something
special I need to configure or set ?

I am using SQL 2000.

Thanks

Re: Trans Replication question

Hilary Cotter
6/1/2006 6:11:18 AM

As Paul has mentioned the independent agent option is useful here. I would
advise you to use manual methods to do the sync as pushing this much data
via a snapshot agent is difficult.

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Re: Trans Replication question

Paul Ibison
6/1/2006 9:23:39 AM

Hassan,
on the subscription options tab you can select to "use a distribution agent
that is ondependant of other publications from this database". This is
useful for error handling - if there is an issue with one agent the other
publication won't be stopped. Also the schedules can be independant. If the
articles in the 2 publications are related, you should use a shared agent
though, as transactional consistency will be retained this way.
Cheers,
Paul Ibison SQL Server MVP, www.replicationanswers.com

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