Defining Replication Servers, Replicates, Participants, and Replicate Sets

These topics describe the steps defining and starting Enterprise Replication.

To define and start replication:

1. Initialize the database server.
2. Create a replication domain by defining replication servers.
3. Configure replication by defining replicates, and optionally grouping replicates into a replicate set. The replicate definition includes information about the participants, replication options, frequency, and conflict-resolution rules and scope.
4. Specify the data to replicate by defining participants. A participant definition specifies the data (database, table, and columns) that should be replicated.
5. Synchronize the data among the replicates.