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DATABASE REPLICATION: WATCH THE DATA FLY
Source: Client/Server Today Magazine Published: Oct 1994
This is the first of a two-part series by George Schussel on database replication. This first article focuses on the overall importance and benefits of replication and provides an introduction to the two forms of replication services. In the second part, published the following month, differences between two forms of replication are examined in detail.
Motivation for this article came from the fact that as distributed operational applications were becoming more widely used across large enterprises, pressure was increasing to maintain local copies of key corporate data in order to provide better response time for local queries. As a result, corporate databases-or at least the data residing in those databases-had to migrate out from the secure and highly optimized sanctuary of the glass house into the distributed and frequently chaotic world of open systems.
