Administering Replication
This chapter contains information on administering replication topologies. It is recommended that you read the best practices topic first, and then follow the links from that topic to more detailed information in this chapter and other chapters.
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Describes a variety of best practices, including information about backup and restore, monitoring, performance, and maintenance tasks. |
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Addresses a wide variety of questions related to administrative tasks and how replication functions. |
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Describes how to add and drop articles from publications and provides a list of property changes that require reinitialization or the generation of a new snapshot. |
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Describes monitoring replication status and performance with Microsoft SQL Server Replication Monitor, and monitoring replication performance with System Monitor. |
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Provides information on replication agents, agent profiles, and using alerts. |
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Details considerations for backing up and restoring replicated databases, with strategies for each type of replication. |
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Describes general performance improvements for replication and specific guidance for each type of replication. |
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Provides information on validating data at Subscribers to determine whether the data matches the data at the Publisher. |
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Describes how to upgrade instances of SQL Server in a replication topology. |
See Also
Other Resources
Configuring and Maintaining Replication