Re: SQL Replication Models

2009-02-16 Thread Jochem van Dieten
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 1:16 AM, C. Hatton Humphrey wrote: The main thing I'm worried about is any performance hit on the publishing server. The target server can lag behind data-wise by a bit (30 minutes to an hour is an acceptable delay). Those do not appear to be very challenging

Re: SQL Replication Models

2009-02-16 Thread C. Hatton Humphrey
Don wrote: With regard to 1,498 tables, do you mean, User Tables? just for clarity. Yes, 1498 user tables. The application was originally built on a flat-file database system like DB3/4 or Foxpro and was ported to SQL Server without re-engineering the database. All of the tables have 8

Re: SQL Replication Models

2009-02-16 Thread C. Hatton Humphrey
Those do not appear to be very challenging requirements. You could probably even do this without any of the built-in replication at all but with just incremental backups. How have you currently configured your backups? Do you notice a performance impact when you run a full backup? Do you

Re: SQL Replication Models

2009-02-16 Thread Jochem van Dieten
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 1:10 PM, C. Hatton Humphrey wrote: Jochem van Dieten wrote: The current schedule for backups is a full backup at 3am for the group of databases and then a transactional backup every hour from 7am to 10pm during the week. For performance size doesn't matter all that

Re: SQL Replication Models

2009-02-16 Thread Don L
Those do not appear to be very challenging requirements. You could probably even do this without any of the built-in replication at all but with just incremental backups. How have you currently configured your backups? Do you notice a performance impact when you run a full backup? Do you

Re: SQL Replication Models

2009-02-15 Thread Don L
Question for anyone that handles SQL Replication: What effect would setting up transactional replication from a large Windows 2000 database (17 Gb) with moderate usage (18-20 max simultaneous connections) to a Windows 2005 server have on the performance of the Windows 2000 machine? The reason

Re: SQL Replication Models

2009-02-15 Thread C. Hatton Humphrey
Thanks for the comments, Don! The main thing I'm worried about is any performance hit on the publishing server. The target server can lag behind data-wise by a bit (30 minutes to an hour is an acceptable delay). The problem is the size. A MS Dynamics GP database contains 1,498 tables (not

Re: SQL Replication Models

2009-02-15 Thread Don L
Thanks for the comments, Don! The main thing I'm worried about is any performance hit on the publishing server. The target server can lag behind data-wise by a bit (30 minutes to an hour is an acceptable delay). The problem is the size. A MS Dynamics GP database contains 1,498 tables (not

SQL Replication Models

2009-02-14 Thread C. Hatton Humphrey
Question for anyone that handles SQL Replication: What effect would setting up transactional replication from a large Windows 2000 database (17 Gb) with moderate usage (18-20 max simultaneous connections) to a Windows 2005 server have on the performance of the Windows 2000 machine? The reason