SQL Azure Merge Replication

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CoderMarkus picture CoderMarkus · May 24, 2012 · Viewed 10.8k times · Source

Does anyone know if SQL Azure supports merge replication? I am currently working with the web version of SQL 2008 R2 and it does not support the publication side of replication and I need a solution that will that doesn't cost $7000.

Answer

David Pallmann picture David Pallmann · May 24, 2012

SQL Azure Database does not provide replication currently.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/ff394115.aspx

However, there is the SQL Azure Data Sync service (currently in preview).

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