Hello helpful community, :)
I have a question about replication / logshipping.
Our situation: We have old, big databases on an current production servers (~900GB). (We need to keep many years of data because of FDA) We build a complete new system with new databases, new applications etc. The new databases will go live end of the year
and we plan to run both systems parallel for some time. The issue I'm facing are the reports. We need to pull data from both (old and new systems) during this transition period before we can archive the old system.
My Question: We have a new and fast report server. I would like to replicate the current data to the new report server to be able to pull data. Is it possible to setup a replication or logshipping for a certain date range? I thought about having two years worth of data in the subscription / secondary database. 2 years is the range we need for our internal reports.
Additional information: I would prefer to use a replication or logshipping instead of linked servers. The new SQL servers are faster than the old once.
Old systems: SQL 2005 SP4
New systems: SQL 2012 SP1
Thanks in advance