Douglasjbell (9/18/2012)
HiThanks for the reply, I have just been reading about SQL 2012 free LocalDB that can be deployed with an application. This looks like a very good database for my application instead of Access 2007.
However as my knowledge of SQL is very limited, can I use an application written in VS 2005 to read and write to a 2012 LocalDb instance and can the information in this DB be mergerd or replicated to a full 2008 sql server as per my origional post.
Cheers
DJ
It would be nice to get some experts to join in this discussion as I don't want to give wrong suggestions!
Your touch device DBs need to publish the information and your repository db needs to be the subscriber. With SQL server compact edition 3.5 sp2 I believe you can do merge replication (so info flows both ways) but I've never tried it so not sure how it will work.
Have you considered creating your own custom replication process?
As I said previously, you can have a scheduled job that runs every two minutes and checks each db for records that have been inserted or updated. Is this not possible?
Thanks.
P.s
LocalDB does not spurt replication I'm afraid. Even compact edition 4 no longer supports merge replication so it looks like Microsoft don't want this functionality available in this vision anymore!
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