- A Brief History of DB2
- DB2 software and the IBM E-Business On-Demand Model
- DB2 UDB Editions
- DB2 UDB Clients
- "Try and Buy" Versions
- Host Connectivity
- Federated Support
- Replication Support
- IBM DB2 Information Integrator
- Special Package Offerings for Developers
- DB2 Syntax Diagram Conventions
- Case Study
- Summary
- Review Questions
1.8 Replication Support
Replication lets you propagate data to different servers to keep different databases synchronized. Data changes captured at one server are later applied to another (target) server, as illustrated in Figure 1.11. In the figure, the first box shows the source server and the fourth box shows the target server. The second and third boxes contain the "capture" and "apply" components, respectively.
Figure 1.11 DB2 replication environment
DB2 UDB has built-in support for replication when source and target databases are part of the IBM family, which includes Informix. For databases from other vendors, such as Oracle or SQL Server, the IBM DB2 Information Integrator software is required.