So we are trying to create an Enterprise Data Warehouse and Operational Data Store(ODS) Data Environment. Our idea is to spin-up a Replication Environment in order to isolate our EDW/ODS Environment and keep it away from our main Production Server where our main application data resides. Obviously, we DO NOT want to impact our normal business day operations.
Our benchmarks tell us it's going to be a couple of days of wall time to get our replicated environment up and running based on complex queries which are aggregating the data from various resources for our EDW/ODS Environment.
We are hoping that respondents can point us in the right direction in regards to the SQL Server steps we need to implement to accomplish this. As well, we want some Sync Points along the way if that's possible. If the load is going to take 3-4 days, we DO NOT want to re-start from the beginning...merely start where it left off or aborted for whatever reason...be it a data reason...be it an electrical outage...anything.
Thanks for your review and am hopeful for a reply.