"Robert" <cpq1bcle[REMOVE]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
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> I'm confused as to what replication is. Is replication used when
> there is no network available or it is impossible to install a
> network (as with several employees having laptops that they travel
> around with)? Or not? How do you go about creating replication?
Replication allows you to edit two replicas in different locations
and synchronize the data between the two replicas. After a
synchronization, the databases are identical.
Jet Replication in particular requires a network connection for the
duration of the synchronization, but not a persistent one. And
indirect replication is very efficient and works well even over low
bandwidth and unreliable connections.
I started using Jet replication with my clients back in the late
1990s to allow them to edit data at multiple offices and still share
it between all users. With the inclusion of Windows Terminal Server
in Windows 2000 Server, I no longer do this for that purpose. In the
case of separate offices, one office sets up a Terminal Server and
everybody in the remote offices edit data on the Terminal Server, so
everybody has current data at all times. Terminal Server works well
with DSL and up -- I have a client with satellite sites with 384K
DSL and it works great.
I still use Jet Replication to sup****t disconnected users who need
to edit without a network connection. That means mostly laptop users
who have to leave the home office and work without a full-time
network connection. This makes things much easier, especially if
they will only synch when back in the home office, where it's a LAN
connection and can be done with simple direct replication (without
all the complications of installing and configuring the Jet
synchronizer).
--
David W. Fenton http://www.dfenton.com/
usenet at dfenton dot com http://www.dfenton.com/DFA/
