replication alternatives

Anyone know of third party tools that would do the same
thing? Maybe without alter replicated tables restriction?
TIA, ChrisR
Chris,
Datamirror is sometimes mentioned in this newsgroup. I suppose a solution
could also be based on datacompare.
The main alternative that comes up is of course DTS/log shipping. These
solutions are for different scenarios, but often fit the bill. Using DTS if
you have updating subscribers can be painful however to set up.
BTW, transactional/snapshot replication (standard) doesn't alter the schema.
HTH,
Paul Ibison

Replication Active Connection

Using SQL Server 2000 transactional replication which is running continously
to populate our reporting server. We have a thrid party software which we
need to use a interface to take a cvs file and import it into their database.
The interface requires that it has exclusive access to the database. Since we
are running replication there is always a constant connection to the
published database. Is there away to stop that connection. I have tried
stopping the synchronization but it seems to me the only way to remove that
connection is to delete the publiction. Is there an easier way.
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If the third party software needs access to the subscriber database you
could stop the distribution agent, or have the third party application put
the database in read only or single user mode before it starts to do its
work.
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> Using SQL Server 2000 transactional replication which is running
> continously
> to populate our reporting server. We have a thrid party software which we
> need to use a interface to take a cvs file and import it into their
> database.
> The interface requires that it has exclusive access to the database. Since
> we
> are running replication there is always a constant connection to the
> published database. Is there away to stop that connection. I have tried
> stopping the synchronization but it seems to me the only way to remove
> that
> connection is to delete the publiction. Is there an easier way.
> --
> Message posted via droptable.com
> http://www.droptable.com/Uwe/Forums...ation/200610/1
>