Publications (DMM)

A publication specifies the data to replicate and enables remote databases to subscribe to them as a group. You must specify a data connection between the source database and the replication process before you can create a publication. Publications have no symbol in the diagram but are listed on the Publications tab of a replication process property sheet.

A publication can contain the following items:

Articles - contains tables or views to replicate (see Articles (DMM)).
Procedures - are stored procedures to replicate (see Procedures (DMM)).
Subscriptions - specify which data is replicated and where (see Subscriptions (DMM)). This list is also available from the replication process property sheet.

In the following example, the New York publication contains three articles, each of which contains a table to be replicated.

publication article

Note: When a data connection is deleted, all publications attached to it are deleted.

Adding or Removing Publications from a Replication Process
You can create or delete a publication using the tools available on the Publications tab of a replication process property sheet.
Publication Properties
To view or edit a publication's properties, double-click its Browser or list entry. The property sheet tabs and fields listed here are those available by default, before any customization of the interface by you or an administrator.

Parent topic: Data Movement Diagrams