Before you can add databases to a replication system, you need to prepare them so that Replication Server can distribute the primary data and maintain the replicated data stored in them.
If your databases are managed by Sybase Adaptive Servers:
Use Sybase Central or rs_init to prepare Adaptive Server databases for use with Replication Server.
See the Replication Server Installation Guide and Replication Server Configuration Guide for more information on rs_init.
If your databases are managed by non-ASE data servers:
Refer to the Replication Server Design Guide for required preparations. In addition, to find out how to prepare your database for the heterogeneous datatype support (HDS) feature, see the Replication Server Configuration Guide for your platform. HDS enables the translation of primary database column values of one datatype to another datatype acceptable to the replicate database.
See “Translating datatypes using HDS” for more information about HDS.
When you are connecting a new database to an existing system, always conduct a careful review and analysis of how the database will fit into your system. Determine which other processes are required for the database, and designate required names and login names for these processes.
If you anticipate that an existing “replicate-only” database may in the future be the source of replicated function delivery or contain primary data, you can set up the database so that it can manage primary tables. You can then avoid upgrading the replicate-only database in the future.
