Greetings all! I've got plenty of experience using Transactional replication to replicate data to a reporting server, but not much else.
I may have a requirement to have 6 DB's exist on two different boxes for some time. My requirements would essentially be close to those required for using Transactional replication with immediate updating subscribers for DR purposes. I should be clear that I would be using a SQL 2000 Publisher, a SQL 2005 Subscriber, and a SQL 2005 remote Distributor. So my questions would be:
TIA, ChrisRDBA
I may have a requirement to have 6 DB's exist on two different boxes for some time. My requirements would essentially be close to those required for using Transactional replication with immediate updating subscribers for DR purposes. I should be clear that I would be using a SQL 2000 Publisher, a SQL 2005 Subscriber, and a SQL 2005 remote Distributor. So my questions would be:
- Article Properties (tables) -- If I set everything to True for Copy Objects And Settings to Subscriber, will my tables be "complete"? Would all constraints, properties, etc. be there? If I had to fail over and start using this server as my primary server, would all queries against these tables work?
- I was successfully able to do a test of 1) turn off the Publisher, 2) insert a row into the Subscriber, 3) turn the Subscriber back on, 4) verify that the record made it over to the Publisher. Is there a limit to how long one of these boxes can be offline for and still function (i.e. make it over to the other server once it's turned back on)?
TIA, ChrisRDBA
