We are looking at setting up our first replication. Currently we are using a mixed 2008/2012 environment. The business issue we are trying to fix is writing large tables in our production environment has slowed up users experience. We process a ton of data each evening and during our heaviest write times to tables we find user experience issues.
The question is simple, replication should write the data "lighter" then a typical database insert correct? Or is it about the same? We know the processes that cause issues, but there is not easy way to solve for it beyond fairly radical changes to our environment (we are not clustered).
We plan on setting a master server that runs all processes, then publishes to the client (user interface) server.
As a smaller side, if there is any recommend materials to learn about replication, please tell me.