"Jason Chapman (JAC2)" wrote:

> Thoughts on high availability ticker DB's (that's what I call them):
> Firstly for a 24 x 7 x 30.8 I would normally have 2 db's running in
> parallel. That way you have additional fault tolerance and can run a
> bespoke replication to allow inserts into either DB to propagate to the
> other (this is so application specific, I've done it for one mfr co and
> advised at least one other).
>

Jason - do you do this via a middleware type application which writes to both
db's ?
Or do you use IBReplicator ?

>
> This way if you need to you can take a DB down you can ensure it is
> non-live, then let the replication deplete, then it is yours to do whatever
> with.

Again - same question basically - How does the "replication deplete"?

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