4. Select
Transactional Replication from the available publication type and Click on the
Next> button as shown in the screen capture below:
5. Select
the Objects that you want to publish. In this example, we will select a table
named Person which we need to Replicate. Select the table as shown in the
screen capture below and Click on the Next> button. One important point to
note is that Only those tables can be replicated in Transaction Replication
which has a Primary Key column in it.
6. Since
there are no filtering conditions, Click on the Next> button as shown in the
screen capture below:
7. Check
the first radio button as shown in the screen capture below and Click on the
Next> button.
8. Click
on the Security Settings tab as shown in the screen capture below.
A new window
appears as shown in the screen capture below.
Select Run under
the SQL Server Agent service account as the account under which the Snapshot
Agent process will run and Connect to the publisher By impersonating the
process account as shown in the screen capture below and then Click on the OK
button.
Click on the
Next> button as shown in the screen capture below.
9. Click
on the Next> button as shown in the screen capture below.
10. Give a suitable name to the
publisher ad Click on the Finish button as shown in the screen capture below.
Creating the
Subscriber
Once the
publisher is created the next step is to create the subscriber for it.
The following
steps needs to be performed for creating the subscriber.
1. Right
Click on the publisher created and select New Subscriptions as shown in the
screen capture below.
2. Click
on the Next> button as shown in the screen capture below.
3. Click
on the Next> button as shown in the screen capture below.
4. Click
on the Next> button as shown in the screen capture below.
5. As
shown in the screen capture below, it asks for the Subscriber name as well as
the subscription database. The subscriber database can be created by restoring
the publisher database at the start itself or by creating a new database as
shown in the screen capture below.
If you have
already restored the backup of the database which is a publisher, then the
database name will appear in the dropdown as shown in the screen capture below:
If we wan’t to
now create the subscriber database then it can be done as follows:
Click on New
Database as shown in the screen capture below.
A new window
appears as shown below. Give a suitable database name as well as the path where
the data and log file are going to reside.
Click on the OK
button.
If the
subscriber is some other server, then the following steps need to be performed.
Click on the
down arrow available on the Add Subscriber button as shown in the screen
capture below.
Click on Add SQL
Server Subscriber as shown in the screen capture above.
A new window
appears which asks for the SQL Server Name as well as the Authentication neeed
to connect to the SQL Server, please refer the screen capture below.
6. Click
on the Next> button as shown in the screen capture below.
7. Click
on the button as shown in the screen capture below. Here we need to
specify
Process
account as well as the connection options for the distribution agent.
