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How to publish SQL Express Data to a central SQL 2005 subscriber?

John Tenney
9/13/2006 5:06:02 PM

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I need to get data from several client SQLExpress PCs to a central SQL 2005
server over the Internet. I'd like to pull this data from the server instead
of pushing from the client PCs - but not a requirement. I understand
SQLExpress only supports subscriber replication only. Once uploaded data will
not be updated on the client, so only new data on clients needs to be pulled
up to the server 5x daily.

My thought is to implement web service on the clients that the will allow
the server to pull new data accross via a dataset. New clients will need to
register with the server.

Is there something else I might be missing that is already built into SQL
2005 that will facilitate this type data consolidation instead of writing a
lot of code? Budget cuts require SQLExpress on the clients only.

Re: How to publish SQL Express Data to a central SQL 2005 subscriber?

Warren Brunk
9/13/2006 5:52:23 PM

I would try an SSIS package running on the corporate server that uses an OLE
DB or an ODBC connection to the client computers.

you have tons of options of what data and how you get the data in SSIS. Copy
Database, SQL Statements ETC. you can even merge to the two datasets
together before importing.

You can schedule the job to run as often as you need it.

Much easier then exposing webservices in my opinion. Especially since you
are dealing with DB to DB.

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Re: How to publish SQL Express Data to a central SQL 2005 subscriber?

Hilary Cotter
9/13/2006 9:45:15 PM

Merge replication over https will be ideal for this.

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Re: How to publish SQL Express Data to a central SQL 2005 subscriber?

Paul Ibison
9/14/2006 12:00:00 AM

John,
I'd recommend looking at merge replication with each sqlexpress set up as a
subscriber to a central publisher. In this case the agents would be push, as
they'd be activated by the publisher.
As Hilary points out, this could be set up over HTTPS on SQL Server 2005.
Cheers,
Paul Ibison SQL Server MVP, www.replicationanswers.com

Re: How to publish SQL Express Data to a central SQL 2005 subscrib

John Tenney
9/14/2006 11:05:01 AM

Thanks for pointing me in a direction - I have more confidence in trying
merge replication over HTTPS. From a cursory read of books online, I
incorrectly assummed a subscriber couldn't push data to a publisher...

-John

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