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Professional SQL Server High Availability and Disaster Recovery: Implement tried-and-true high availability and disaster recovery solutions with SQL Server

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Professional SQL Server High Availability and Disaster Recovery

Chapter 2. Transactional Replication

Learning Objectives

By the end of this lesson, you will be able to:

  • Configure and troubleshoot transactional replication

  • Configure Azure SQL Database as a subscriber

  • Configure and troubleshoot peer-to-peer transactional replication

This lesson will teach us how to configure transactional replication and P2P transactional replication. We will also see how to troubleshoot, monitor, and optimize the same.

Introduction


In the previous lesson, we were introduced to replication and its types. We also took a deep dive into how to configure snapshot replication. In this lesson, we will continue our tour of replication and look at transactional replication and peer-to-peer transactional replication.

This lesson teaches you how to configure, troubleshoot, monitor, and optimize transactional replication. Transactional replication is the most common type of replication used to synchronize data between two databases. It is often used to load-balance read and write operations and is also a cost-effective solution for high availability.

Understanding Transactional Replication


In this section, we'll look at how transactional replication works. The following diagram describes how transactional replication works:

Figure 2.1: Transactional replication example

This diagram shows the AdventureWorks database being replicated using transactional replication. Once transactional replication is configured, the snapshot agent, log reader agent, and distribution agent are created as part of the replication. The agents then work together, as described here, to replicate the transactions.

The snapshot agent is used once to initialize the subscriber database schema with that of the publisher. This isn't shown in the diagram, however, it's the first thing that happens when the transactional replication starts.

The subscriber database can be initialized using the publisher database backup, which is covered later in this lesson.

Once initialized, the transactions are replicated as follows:

  • Steps 1 and 2: The log reader agent continuously scans...

Configuring Transactional Replication


We'll now look at how to configure or set up transactional replication between two databases using T-SQL.

Exercise 7: Creating the Publication

The first step in configuring replication is to create the publication. Follow these steps to create a publication for transactional replication:

  1. Navigate to C:\Code\Lesson02\Transactional and open 1_CreatePublication.sql in SQL Server Management Studio.

  2. In SSMS, from the top menu, select Query and then select SQLCMD. This changes the mode of the 1_CreatePublication.sql query to SQLCMD from SQL.

  3. Modify the parameters in the script (shown in the following screenshot) as per your environment:

    Figure 2.2: Parameters in creating a publication

    The preceding screenshot shows the parameters being used in the script. The parameters are self-explanatory. The publisher and distributor are the same, as the publisher acts as its own distributor.

  4. To run the script and create the publication, change the parameters as specified earlier...

Azure SQL Database as a Subscriber in Transaction Replication


An Azure SQL database is a database-as-a-service offering from Microsoft Azure. An Azure SQL database can be configured as a subscriber to an on-premises SQL Server publisher. This is one of best methods to use for migrating an on-premises database to an Azure SQL database. Moreover, the Azure SQL database subscriber can also be used as a backup or to offload reads from the publisher.

Exercise 11: Configuring and Verifying Azure SQL Database as a Subscriber for an On-Premises Transactional Replication

To configure Azure SQL database as a subscriber for an on-premises transactional replication, follow these steps:

Note

Open a new PowerShell console (running as administrator) and execute the Install-Module AzureRm command to install the AzureRm PowerShell module. The AzureRm module is a prerequisite for this exercise.

  1. The first step is to create a new blank Azure SQL database. Open a new PowerShell console window and execute the following...

Understanding Peer-To-Peer Transactional Replication


Peer-to-peer replication, also referred to as master-master replication, is built upon transactional replication in which changes at the subscriber are also replicated to the publisher.

A peer-to-peer topology consists of two or more databases where a change in each node (database) gets replicated at every other node (database) in the topology. Peer-to-peer replication therefore provides a scalable high availability solution.

A typical peer-to-peer transactional replication topology is shown in the following diagram:

Figure 2.36: P2P replication example

Node A and Node B are in a peer-to-peer replication. Any changes made at Node A are replicated to Node B and any changes made at Node B are replicated to Node A.

This topology has the following benefits:

  • Reads are load-balanced between two nodes, thereby optimizing the read performance.

  • Writes are load-balanced between two nodes. For example, let's say there is a customer table that stores customer...

Configuring Peer-To-Peer Transactional Replication


In this section, we'll configure peer-to-peer transactional replication. The topology is as follows:

Figure 2.37: P2P Replication example

The preceding diagram illustrates peer-to-peer topology with two nodes with a push subscription:

  • There isn't any additional replication agent involved.

  • Each server acts as a publisher and subscriber.

  • The log reader agent picks up the transactions from AdventureWorks and inserts them into the distribution database. The push subscription agent (distribution agent) pushes the transactions to the Server 2 AdventureWorks database.

Configuring P2P replication consists of the following steps:

  1. Creating the publication and adding articles to the publication on Server 1.

  2. Creating the subscription and then pushing the subscription agent (distribution agent) on Server 1.

  3. Taking the backup of the AdventureWorks database on Server 1. Unlike standard transactional replication, P2P transactional replication is initialized using...

Modifying an Existing Publication


The following steps show how the publication properties can be changed, as discussed for the standard transactional replication. We'll now look at how to remove and add an article in a P2P replication.

Exercise 17: Removing an Article

The process of removing an article can be broken down into four main sections:

  1. Stopping the distribution agent at each node

  2. Dropping the article at each node

  3. Verifying that the article has been dropped at each node

  4. Starting the distribution agent at each node

Step 1 - Stopping the Distribution Agent at Each Node

Stopping a distribution agent can be easily done by stopping the distribution agent job or by stopping the agent from the View Synchronization window.

Stopping the distribution agents at each node will stop the transactions from being applied to the published database. To stop a distribution agent, follow these steps:

  1. In SSMS, open Object Explorer and connect to Node 1 (Neptune\SQL2014).

  2. Expand Replication | Local Subscriptions...

Summary


In this lesson, we have learned how to configure transactional replication and peer-to-peer transactional replication.

We learned how the different agents, that is, snapshot agent, log reader agent, and distributor agent, work together to replicate the data from the publisher database to the subscriber database.

We then saw how to modify the properties of an existing publication and subscription and how to add and remove articles to/from an existing publication.

In the next lesson, we'll learn how to monitor and troubleshoot transactional replication.

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  • Explore more than 20 real-world use cases to understand SQL Server features
  • Get to grips with the SQL Server Always On technology
  • Learn how to choose HA and DR topologies for your system

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Professional SQL Server High Availability and Disaster Recovery explains the high availability and disaster recovery technologies available in SQL Server: Replication, AlwaysOn, and Log Shipping. You’ll learn what they are, how to monitor them, and how to troubleshoot any related problems. You will be introduced to the availability groups of AlwaysOn and learn how to configure them to extend your database mirroring. Through this book, you will be able to explore the technical implementations of high availability and disaster recovery technologies that you can use when you create a highly available infrastructure, including hybrid topologies. Note that this course does not cover SQL Server Failover Cluster Installation with shared storage. By the end of the book, you’ll be equipped with all that you need to know to develop robust and high performance infrastructure.

Who is this book for?

Professional SQL Server High Availability and Disaster Recovery is for you if you are a database administrator or database developer who wants to improve the performance of your production environment. Prior experience of working with SQL Server will help you get the most out of this book.

What you will learn

  • Configure and troubleshoot Replication, AlwaysOn, and Log Shipping
  • Study the best practices to implement HA and DR solutions
  • Design HA and DR topologies for the SQL Server and study how to choose a topology for your environment
  • Use T-SQL to configure replication, AlwaysOn, and log shipping
  • Migrate from On-Premise SQL Server to Azure SQL Database
  • Manage and maintain AlwaysOn availability groups for extended database mirroring
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