You administer all the deployments of Microsoft SQL Server 2012 in your company.
You need to ensure that data changes are sent to a non-SQL Server database server in near real
time.
You also need to ensure that data on the primary server is unaffected.
Which configuration should you use?
A.
• SQL Server that includes an application database configured to perform transactional replication
B.
• Two servers configured in different data centers
• SQL Server Availability Group configured in Asynchronous-Commit Availability Mode
C.
• Two servers configured in different data centers
• SQL Server Availability Group configured in Synchronous-Commit Availability Mode
• One server configured as an Active Secondary
D.
• SQL Server that includes an application database configured to perform snapshot replication
E.
• Two servers configured in the same data center
• SQL Server Availability Group configured in Asynchronous-Commit Availability Mode
• One server configured as an Active Secondary
F.
• Two servers configured on the same subnet
• SQL Server Availability Group configured in Synchronous-Commit Availability Mode
G.
• Two servers configured in a Windows Failover Cluster in the same data center
• SQL Server configured as a clustered instance
H.
• Two servers configured in the same data center
• A primary server configured to perform log-shipping every 10 minutes
• A backup server configured as a warm standby
Explanation:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms151149.aspx
Only (A) and (D) would allow data to be sent to a non-SQL database, and ‘near real time’ means answer has to be (A).
A
“As soon as the initial snapshot is taken, subsequent data changes and schema modifications made at the Publisher are usually delivered to the Subscriber as they occur (in near real time).”
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms151176.aspx