Urgent Questions about Replication and Partition table

  • Question1:

    I have 3 database on a same server. And databaseA and databaseB both have a table call

    T1 and the structures are same.

    Now I want to replicate databaseA.T1+databaseB.T1 in DatabaseC . I heard in SQLServer2005, there is an option call merge replication , Can anyone give me a hint?

    Question2:

    I used to work with partition table in Oracle . In SQLserver2005, how do we realize partition table ? I mean a table stored in 2 partition , and when the SQL inquiry one partition , the performance is getting better .

  • DTS is a kind of available option?

  • Answer to Q1:

    Merged replication is somewhat different to what you presume. The Merged replication allows to update the Primary server from the secondary when any change occurs in it. It has nothing to do with merging databases.

    You can implement your plan, using DTS in SQL 2000 or SQL Server Integration Service from SQL 2005 onwards. Note that you can schedule the transfer as easily as in a replication.

    Hint: You can have triggers, which keep track of inserted, updated or deleted data in a table for the duration post execution of the job upto the time of execution. In the job, you can just insert the inserted, update the updated, and delete the deleted. You can also have a separate table to log the changes happened and the changes applied.

    Hope this helps.

    Chandrachurh Ghosh
    DBA – MS SQL Server
    Ericsson India Global Services Limited
    Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

  • If you would like to resolve your issue with Replication here is the solution:

    Use Transactional replication to replicate data from

    A.T1 to C.TA

    B.T1 to C.TB

    Create View T1 combining C.TA & C.TB.

    For Partition refer following site:

    http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms345146.aspx#sql2k5parti_topic23

    Hope this will help. Good Luck!

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