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ourspt
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Posted - 2006-11-14 : 03:01:49
Hi,

Our client is located in Europe region. Our application was a web based application using SQL Server 2000 database as the back-end, where this server was located in Europe region. All the users will visit this site through out the world.

Now the client was observing some performance problems in their offices in Asia region. The reason seems to be a relatively bad connection between Europe and Asia. The available bandwidth should be by far sufficient (10 Mbit/s), but the latency seems to be too slow (approx. 350 ms). Our Client is checking with other providers, but they may have similar problems. The effect is that the measured response times in their Asian office are too long (typically 3 – 5 seconds). Their target is to get response times below 2 seconds to make sure that the users can work efficiently.

One possible solution which has been suggested to us was that to install the web based application also on a server in the Asian office. There would be 2 mirrored databases with the same data. The users in Asia would access this server, whereas the users in Europe and America would access the server in Europe. Probably it would be sufficient to update the data once a day or even less frequently.

Does SQL Server 2000 support such a solution? Do you think this would be a feasible solution? If this solution should be implemented, how should we proceed?

Or else Can you suggest any other solution?

Thanks and Regards

ourspt


snSQL
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

1837 Posts

Posted - 2006-11-14 : 15:47:55
You need to look at replication, which should be able to handle that very nicely. Probably for your scenario you'll use transactional replication with a central publisher topology but you can figure all that out from Books Online.
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MichaelP
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2489 Posts

Posted - 2006-11-14 : 15:59:23
I agree. I'd look into Replication or Log Shipping.

Michael

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