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SQL SERVER 2000 Replication over the INTERNET

I have 4 retail stores. I want to write a simple login program in VB6 to enable staff to login. I have no experience with ASP and wish to use VB6 with SQL server 2000 in each store and backoffice.
So that my backoffice adminstrator and all store managers have access to the data for each store is it doable to have replication working in each store VIA the INTERNET to update all data LIVE.

rboyd56

Yes you can replicate over the Internet. About the only condition is that the respective servers have to be able to connect to each other.

If you need to update data at all sites then merge replication is probably the best bet.

One caveat is that merge will add a rowguid column with a unique identifer data type to each table if there is not a column with a unique identifer already established.

Since this is the case you will need to make sure your applications takes that into considration.

rboyd56

One other thing, the data will not be live, there will always be a latency period. The amount of latency is dependent on the network and other factors.

excelclothing

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I will be coding in VB6 and using an ADO connection to each local SQL server.

There will not be a great amount of data going across the INTERNET, however is there a recommended record lock setting I should use for the connect string, ( I'm a rookie programmer, not an expert !) ?

Is it fairly easy to set up the various SQL servers to replicate to each other?

excelclothing

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Thanks of that. Normally what time period should I expect for a latency period. Would it be in seconds or minutes for each record??

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