Hi Jayanth,

transactional replication is not a good fit for near to real time reporting since you have to pause the replication, then mount the database before it can be queried/reported against, take a snapshot of the replicated data, run the report, then after the report is run dismount the database, and then sync up the transactional data that has been held in a queue by restarting replication. If that is the case, then transactional replication would certainly not meet our reporting needs! Can you let me know for any other ideas ..