Zen4Sync: A SQL Server Replication Orchestration Platform Jean-Yves Devant Program Manager - SQL Server Microsoft Corporation Christophe Bigot Senior Analyst - Application Development Avanade France DBI314

Christophe Bigot zen4sync.codeplex.com Former developer of Zen4Sync Senior Analyst Application Development Avanade France

Jean-Yves Devant zen4sync.codeplex.com Replication Change Data Capture Change Tracking Sustained engineering of HA Technologies Program Manager - SQL Server Microsoft Corporation

Agenda The story of Zen4Sync. The architecture. Demos. And now?

The story 15 years of history in SQL Server Making customers successful for their scenarios Offline scenario Sales force automation Technical force automation Delivery/shipping business Automotive, medical applications

Size of deployments is increasing: From 100s and 1.000s to s of subscribers SQL Server SQL Server Compact IIS HTTPS Merge Replication Edge, 4G, 3G, GPRS, Satellite

Challenges Anticipating Verifying business objectives are met Testing and simulating Performance Impact Latency Business scenarios Thousands of subscribers Correctness of data Business rules Compatibility of business processes

Testing and simulation tool Not a product, no commitment, not a public announcement An advanced prototype Testing and simulation tool Not a product, no commitment, not a public announcement An advanced prototype Replication orchestration platform Anticipate… capacity to interact with real enterprise backend Demonstrate… scalability before deployment Validate… … business objectives/constraints and IT goals … business rules have been honored Replication orchestration platform Anticipate… capacity to interact with real enterprise backend Demonstrate… scalability before deployment Validate… … business objectives/constraints and IT goals … business rules have been honored

What Zen4Sync can do

Target non SQL Server Compact Merge Replication subscribers Target non SQL Server Compact Merge Replication subscribers Target Transactional Replication subscribers Target Transactional Replication subscribers

The architecture Database schema Roles

Activity Activity Type Activity Context

You Clients Orchestrators Test Servers Zen4Sync Repository Publisher Distributor SQL Server

Orchestrators Test Servers Clients Repository

Orchestrators Test Servers Clients

Orchestrators Test Servers Clients Publisher Distributor SQL Server

You Clients Orchestrators Test Servers Zen4Sync Repository Publisher Distributor SQL Server

Avanade Inc Joint venture created in 2000 by Accenture and Microsoft $ 1,3 billion revenue in FY11 - More than 60 offices in 20 countries More than 15,000 professionals – Microsoft certifications Microsoft Alliance Partner of the Year – Application Platform (2011) Zen4Sync: Used for large project for technical force automation scenario (France) Contributed to the evolution of the platform Global services innovator, helping customers realize the best results from the Microsoft platform.

Demo 1 Initialization of subscribers

TECHED-Z4S-1 SQL Server 2012 SQL Compact 3.5 SP2 CU6 Zen4Sync Orchestrator Zen4Sync Test Server Zen4Sync TECHED-Z4S-2 SQL Compact 3.5 SP2 CU6 Zen4Sync Test Server TECHED-CUSTOMER SQL Server 2012 IIS Northwind DB

TECHED-Z4S-1 TECHED-Z4S-2 Zen4Sync TECHED-CUSTOMER SYNCSYNC SYNCSYNC

Demo 2 Reorganization of sales area and sync.

TECHED-Z4S-1 Zen4Sync TECHED-CUSTOMER Stored proc. Orders INSERT Orders INSERT

And now?

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Appendix Additional resources Evaluation of filters ETL/DML challenge

Faster syncs Faster DML server side Setup belongs Partition groups If you need to reach the red markers… Large number of concurrent subscribers Smaller deployments Setup belongs Partition groups … you need to reach a compromise. Consider the best practices shared in this session

ERP SQL Server Main publisher

ERP SQL Server Main publisher Flat files Daily Possible solution: Staging tables User tables MERGE T-SQL statement not merge replication SSIS Truncate Offline Scenario: The ETL/Massive DML Challenge

ERP SQL Server Main publisher