You're reading from SQL Server 2019 Administrator's Guide A definitive guide for DBAs to implement, monitor, and maintain enterprise database solutions

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789954326

Length 522 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

SQL

Tools

SQL Server

Concepts

Database Administration

Authors (2):

Marek Chmel

Vladimír Mužný

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Provisioning the SQL Server Environment

2. Chapter 1: Setting Up SQL Server 2019 FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Keeping Your SQL Server Environment Healthy

4. Section 2: Server and Database Maintenance

5. Chapter 3: Implementing Backup and Recovery

6. Chapter 4: Securing Your SQL Server

7. Chapter 5: Working with Disaster Recovery Options

8. Chapter 6: Indexing and Performance

9. Section 3: High Availability and the Cloud with SQL Server 2019

10. Chapter 7: Planning Migration and Upgrade

11. Chapter 8: Automation – Using Tools to Manage and Monitor SQL Server 2019

12. Chapter 9: Configuring Always On High Availability Features

13. Chapter 10: In-Memory OLTP – Why and How to Use it

14. Chapter 11: Combining SQL Server 2019 with Azure

15. Chapter 12: Taming Big Data with SQL Server

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Configuring replication on SQL Server

In this section, we will focus on SQL Server replication in detail and we'll learn how to configure replication for a database between different servers. Like with many other features, the configuration can be done with SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) or with Transaction-SQL (T-SQL) code, which sometimes provides greater flexibility. Be aware that replication is one of the features that you can configure immediately during installation so that it's available on your system. If you haven't installed the feature, you can always add replication to your existing SQL Server instance, as follows:

Fig. 5.6 – SQL Server Replication setup

The replication topology includes several roles for servers and offers various scenarios. The primary roles we will be working with are as follows: