Centralised Database

Hi All,
I've been tasked at looking into a solution for a global data project for my
company.
The company uses some software that requires a local database, the local
databases are going to be located in Australia, US, & UK, the local databases
will have exact copies of each others schema. They would like the UK &
Australia databases to update the US database (effectively making the US
database centralized).
Conceptually whats the best way of doing this? My thoughts would be to have
the 3 local databases and create an additional database to centralize the
three using DTS or replication... ...there would be no overlapping data in
any of the three databases (except identity based keys), however data would
be updated. The only caviate I have to adhere to is the centralized database
must be no more than 30 minutes out of date (preferably no more than 15
minutes).
I've had a good year and half experience of being a DBA, but have never
really had to touch on replication and distributed data, so any thoughts or
views you have would be greatly appreciated.
Kind regards
BenI think your case is the simplest one, no data overlapping, you can use any
way to update data.
I would like use webservice, it is easy to control and no problem on any
firewall.
"BenUK" <BenUK@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi All,
> I've been tasked at looking into a solution for a global data project for
my
> company.
> The company uses some software that requires a local database, the local
> databases are going to be located in Australia, US, & UK, the local
databases
> will have exact copies of each others schema. They would like the UK &
> Australia databases to update the US database (effectively making the US
> database centralized).
> Conceptually whats the best way of doing this? My thoughts would be to
have
> the 3 local databases and create an additional database to centralize the
> three using DTS or replication... ...there would be no overlapping data in
> any of the three databases (except identity based keys), however data
would
> be updated. The only caviate I have to adhere to is the centralized
database
> must be no more than 30 minutes out of date (preferably no more than 15
> minutes).
> I've had a good year and half experience of being a DBA, but have never
> really had to touch on replication and distributed data, so any thoughts
or
> views you have would be greatly appreciated.
> Kind regards
> Ben