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? Robert
Robert wrote: > 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? > > Robert > > > Suggest you Google search for "Access replication" and do a lot of reading. Bob
"Robert" <cpq1bcle[REMOVE]@verizon.net> wrote in news:47484899$0$5279$bbae4d71@news.suddenlink.net: > 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 support 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/
Thank you. "David W. Fenton" <XXXusenet@dfenton.com.invalid> wrote in message news:Xns99F2C734CDA2Cf99a49ed1d0c49c5bbb2@66.250.146.128... > "Robert" <cpq1bcle[REMOVE]@verizon.net> wrote in > news:47484899$0$5279$bbae4d71@news.suddenlink.net: > >> 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 support 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/ >
Thank you. <user@domain.invalid> wrote in message news:e9dSLZrLIHA.4948@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > Robert wrote: >> 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? >> >> Robert > Suggest you Google search for "Access replication" and do a lot of > reading. > > Bob >
