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SQL Server 2017 Administrator's Guide

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SQL Server 2017 Administrator's Guide

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Overview of this book

Take advantage of the real power of SQL Server 2017 with all its new features, in addition to covering core database administration tasks. This book will give you a competitive advantage by helping you quickly learn how to design, manage, and secure your database solution. You will learn how to set up your SQL Server and configure new (and existing) environments for optimal use. After covering the designing aspect, the book delves into performance-tuning aspects by teaching you how to effectively use indexes. The book will also teach you about certain choices that need to be made about backups and how to implement a rock-solid security policy and keep your environment healthy. Finally, you will learn about the techniques you should use when things go wrong, and other important topics, such as migration, upgrading, and consolidation, are covered in detail. Integration with Azure is also covered in depth. Whether you are an administrator or thinking about entering the field, this book will provide you with all the skills you need to successfully create, design, and deploy databases using SQL Server 2017.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Configuring replication on SQL Server

In this part of the chapter, we will focus on SQL Server replication in detail and we'll see 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 (GUI) or with T-SQL code, which sometimes provides greater flexibility. Be aware that replication is one of the features that you can configure immediately during installation to be available on your system. In case you haven't installed the feature, you can always add replication to the existing SQL Server instance:

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

  • Subscriber
  • Publisher
  • Distributor

Let's read a little about each of the roles:

  • Publisher is the primary server in the...