I've been doing direct replication on my databases for years now, and
I'm looking into switching to indirect replication to work over a WAN
which we just setup with a VPN. Everything I read says I need
Replication Manager to do indirect replication. How do I buy this?
I've gone to Microsoft.com and searched products and cannot find it as
a product for sale (although it's referred to thousands of times in
their discussion group threads). I've read that it is part of the
"Developers Edition", but that doesn't seem to exist as a product for
sale either on Microsoft.com. I see Office versions of Enterprise,
Ultimate, etc... , but no Developers Edition.
Where/how do I get replication manager?
Also as an aside - I'm unclear between the difference between direct
and indirect replication. I have users on laptops who VPN into the
network. At this point, they are effectively "local" computers
(aren't they?), so do I need to use indirect replication? Or should I
stick to direct? By direct replication, I've literally just been
using the following code in my front end database:
LocalDataSet.Synchronize "\\SharedEmp\DB\Data\CRMdata.mdb"
Any help is appreciated.
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