Advanced Replication Features and Internals

This chapter contains information about replication internals and a number of advanced features.

Topic	Description
Advanced Features of Merge Replication	Describes advanced features of merge replication, including conflict detection and resolution, and business logic handlers.
Bidirectional Transactional Replication	Describes a topology that allows two servers to exchange changes with each other using transactional replication.
Republishing Data	Provides information on using republishing Subscribers.
Snapshot Options	Provides information on snapshot options, including: alternate snapshot locations, compressed snapshots, delivering snapshots through File Transfer Protocol (FTP), and executing scripts when snapshots are applied.
How Snapshot Replication Works	Describes the components and processes involved in snapshot replication.
How Transactional Replication Works	Describes the components and processes involved in transactional replication, including updatable subscriptions.
How Oracle Publishing Works	Describes the components and processes involved in publishing data from Oracle with Microsoft SQL Server snapshot replication and transactional replication.
How Merge Replication Works	Describes the components and processes involved in merge replication.

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