Replication advice

Hello,
I have 30 remote WinXP sites connected to a Win 2K3 server via VPN.
Each remote site runs MSDE. Basically, they are automated data aquisition
machines recording into a DB about 200K of data every 15 minutes.
The data at each remote site needs to be replicated into its own DB on the
Win 2K3 server on a regular basis, hopefully within 1 or 2 hours of being
first recorded..
What form of replication would be recommended for this scenario?
Thank you
Unfortunately MSDE cannot be a transactional publisher which is the best fit
for what you are trying to do. What you will have to do is use merge
replication with the with the exchangetype being upload only.
Hilary Cotter
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"MikeH" <MikeH@.community.nospam> wrote in message
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> Hello,
> I have 30 remote WinXP sites connected to a Win 2K3 server via VPN.
> Each remote site runs MSDE. Basically, they are automated data aquisition
> machines recording into a DB about 200K of data every 15 minutes.
> The data at each remote site needs to be replicated into its own DB on the
> Win 2K3 server on a regular basis, hopefully within 1 or 2 hours of being
> first recorded..
> What form of replication would be recommended for this scenario?
> Thank you