If it were only SQL Server you could do this easily with the DTS applet.  You 
can set up a transfer profile and sve it allowing you to run it manually or on 
a schedule.  DTS is simple, but not automatic (beyond scheduling).

Also DTS doesn't allow for true synchronization - it's purely an import or 
export.  You can add rows or overwrite everything, but can't really combine 
things.

To do real replication between the machine you'll want to set up a 
"Subscription" (take a look in Books online about it).  It's quite powerful and 
can work in both "push" and "pull" modes.  I've not used it outside an 
enteprise environment however so I'm not sure how it would handle something 
like you're talking about.

You'll most likely want to designate one machine as the "publisher" and set up 
the subscriptions there.  The other machine would be the "subscriber" and copy 
data to itself (a "pull" subscription).  This is simplest.

You can also set up a "merge" subscription where both machines would be both 
publishers and subscribers - but I've never done this.

I've played quite a bit with DTS, but only toyed with the publication model 
personally.

I'm not sure if the equivelant exists for mySQL, but I would guess that there's 
something out there.

Jim Davis

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