Advanced Replication Features and Internals

This chapter contains information about replication internals and a number of advanced features.

Topic Description

Advanced Features of Merge Replication

Describes advanced features of merge replication, including conflict detection and resolution, and business logic handlers.

Bidirectional Transactional Replication

Describes a topology that allows two servers to exchange changes with each other using transactional replication.

Republishing Data

Provides information on using republishing Subscribers.

Snapshot Options

Provides information on snapshot options, including: alternate snapshot locations, compressed snapshots, delivering snapshots through File Transfer Protocol (FTP), and executing scripts when snapshots are applied.

How Snapshot Replication Works

Describes the components and processes involved in snapshot replication.

How Transactional Replication Works

Describes the components and processes involved in transactional replication, including updatable subscriptions.

How Oracle Publishing Works

Describes the components and processes involved in publishing data from Oracle with Microsoft SQL Server snapshot replication and transactional replication.

How Merge Replication Works

Describes the components and processes involved in merge replication.

See Also

Other Resources

Configuring and Maintaining Replication

Help and Information

Getting SQL Server 2005 Assistance