On Wednesday, Feb 16th, 3 PM Eastern I'm presenting a webcast for Idera's Secrets of SQL Server series. Presentation details are below. Register here, and I hope to "see" you online tomorrow!
Improving Performance By Scaling Out With Transactional Replication
As databases grow larger in both size and usage scaling out becomes a natural design evolution to improve performance and availability. This presentation will make the case for using transactional replication as one good way to do this. We'll look at how transactional replication is both a high performance and high availability technology, explain the fundamentals of how transactional replication works, demonstrate different ways that it can deployed, and then walk through how to set up a simple publication and subscription.