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mike123
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Posted - 2008-02-29 : 08:49:12
Hi,

I have zero experience running any databases that spread further than 1 machine, so I have a few theory questions here that hopefully someone can help with. Hopefully this is the right forum, I'm not sure if it classifies as 'clustering'.

Anyways, we are launching a web app that is going to start with just 1 webserver/db server. For speed reasons, after some growth we might have to have a load balanced setup with a webserver in europe and one in north america. Basically the webservers are going to be serving 100,000's of files and each time a file is served it needs to be recorded in the database.

I think that if I'm connecting my european webserver across the internet to my db server, thats killing the purpose of having a webserver in europe to make for faster responses.

I am thinking that this european web server/db serving is only going to be logging the files served. Is there a way to import them into north american database everynight ?

I'm not sure what the best approach would be for something like this, but any suggestions are greatly appreciated.


Thanks very much,
mike123

sodeep
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Posted - 2008-02-29 : 09:31:00
Check out Peer-to Peer Replication in SQL server 2005
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Lumbago
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Posted - 2008-02-29 : 09:31:06
Having a single database server that serves both US/Europe webservers would kill the performance of the website so having one database present at each site is essential. Migrating data between them can be done in a number of ways where replication or log shipping would be the most common ways.

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