Welcome to the start of your journey along the Q replication road. Any journey can be a bumpy ride, but after reading this book and going through the numerous examples, your journey will be a smoother one! In this first chapter, we will take you through the following discussion points:
Why we want to replicate data.
What is available today in the IBM world of data replication.
The toolsets available to set up and administer a replication environment and look at the code that we need to install for a functioning Q replication solution.
Introduce the architecture of Q replication. We look at the different types of replication available, namely the base replication methods of unidirectional, bidirectional, and peer-to-peer, and the replication architectures built on these base methods.
Replicating XML data types and compressed tables. We look at some of the design points when considering replicating compressed table.
Q replication conflict detection.
Available transformation processing for both regular and XML data.