Pro SQL Server 2008 Replication

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Dedicated to my parents, the late Subhendu P. Paul and Kavita Paul
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Contents at a Glance
About the Author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii
About the Technical Reviewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xix
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xxi
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xxiii
■ CHAPTER 1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
■ CHAPTER 2 Replication Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
■ CHAPTER 3 Types of Replication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
■ CHAPTER 4 Configuring Snapshot Replication Using the GUI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
■ CHAPTER 5 Configuring Snapshot Replication Using T-SQL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
■ CHAPTER 6 Snapshot Generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
■ CHAPTER 7 Internals of Snapshot Replication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
■ CHAPTER 8 Configuring Transactional Replication Using the GUI . . . . . . . . . . 223
■ CHAPTER 9 Configuring Transactional Replication Using T-SQL . . . . . . . . . . . 261
■ CHAPTER 10 Internals of Transactional Replication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
■ CHAPTER 11 Configuring Merge Replication Using the GUI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399
■ CHAPTER 12 Web Synchronization with Merge Replication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443
■ CHAPTER 13 Configuring Merge Replication Using T-SQL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471
■ CHAPTER 14 The Internals of Merge Replication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537
■ CHAPTER 15 Backup and Recovery of Snapshot and
Transactional Replication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 599
■ CHAPTER 16 Backup and Recovery of Merge Replication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 653
■ CHAPTER 17 Optimizing Snapshot Replication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 697
■ CHAPTER 18 Optimizing Transactional Replication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 737
■ CHAPTER 19 Optimizing Merge Replication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 801
■ CHAPTER 20 Heterogeneous Replication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 837
■ APPENDIX E-R Diagram of the mysales Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 875
■ INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 879
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Contents
About the Author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii
About the Technical Reviewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xix
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xxi
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xxiii
■ CHAPTER 1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Distributed Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Distributed Data Transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Replication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Eager Replication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Lazy Replication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Replication in SQL Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Benefits of Replication. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
SQL Server 2008 Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
SQL Server Configuration Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
SQL Server Management Studio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Database Engine Tuning Advisor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Replication Monitor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Quick Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
■ CHAPTER 2 Replication Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Publisher-Subscriber Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Components of Replication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Distributor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Publisher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Subscriber. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Publication. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Article. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Subscriptions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
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Physical Replication Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Publisher/Distributor–Subscriber Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Central Publisher–Multiple Subscribers Model. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Central Subscriber–Multiple Publishers Model. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Multiple Publishers–Multiple Subscribers Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Installing and Configuring Replication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Installing SQL Server Replication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Configuring with the GUI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Configuring Database Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Configuring with T-SQL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Quick Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
■ CHAPTER 3 Types of Replication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Snapshot Replication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
The Snapshot Agent Profile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
How Snapshot Replication Works. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Transactional Replication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
How Transactional Replication Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Immediate Updating and Queued Updating Subscriptions. . . . . . . . 65
The Log and Queue Reader Agent Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Peer-to-Peer Transactional Replication. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Merge Replication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
The Merge Agent Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Quick Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
■ CHAPTER 4 Configuring Snapshot Replication Using the GUI . . . . . . . . 85
Configuring Publication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Configuring a Subscription . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Configuring Push Subscriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Configuring Pull Subscriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Adding and Deleting an Article . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Quick Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122