User's Manual
Chapter 2. SQL Remote Concepts
Some sample installations
While SQL Remote can provide replication services in many different
environments, its features are designed with the following characteristics in
mind:
♦ SQL Remote should be a solution even when no administration load can
be assigned to the remote databases, as in mobile workforce applications.
♦ Data communication among the sites may be occasional and indirect: it
need not be permanent and direct.
♦ Memory and resource requirements at remote sites are assumed to be at a
premium.
The following examples show some typical SQL Remote setups.
Server-to-laptop replication for mobile workforces
SQL Remote provides two-way replication between a database on an office
network and personal databases on the laptop computers of sales
representatives. Such a setup may use an e-mail system as a message
transport.
Laptop computer
Remote
database
Laptop computer
Remote
database
Office network
server
Consolidated
database
Laptop computer
Remote
database
Laptop computer
Remote
database
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