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boggyboy
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Posted - 10/11/2012 :  10:06:47  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
is there any advantage of using SQL Snapshot Replication over a approach where I accomplish the same result with just a few SQL statements.. such as

DROP the destination table
SELECT INTO destination table FROM source table



Nick W Saban

boggyboy
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Posted - 10/12/2012 :  05:56:27  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Here is the answer:

Replication will only affect records added, updated or deleted since the last replication whereas Drop/Insert will of course affect all records. For smaller result sets this may not be an issue however if you’re looking at hundreds of thousands/millions or records, there could be a substantial impact on the database performance (especially if there are indexes involved). Also, Drop/Insert will result in larger transaction log activity than replication.

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russell
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Posted - 10/20/2012 :  19:23:21  Show Profile  Visit russell's Homepage  Reply with Quote
No. The snapshot agent copies ALL of the records, not just changes.

I still often choose snapshot replication for this task, particularly when there are many tables I need to copy on schedule.
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