Subscription Materialization

Materialization is creating and activating subscriptions, and copying data from the primary database to the replicate database, thereby initializing the replicate database.

Before you can replicate data from a primary database, you must set up and populate each replicate database so that it is in a state consistent with that of the primary database. There are two types of subscription materialization supported by Replication Server:

Bulk materialization – manually creating and activating a subscription and populating a replicate database using data unload and load utilities outside the control of the replication system.
Automatic materialization – creating a subscription and populating a replicate database using Replication Server commands.

Heterogeneous replication supports bulk materialization methods with varying complexity based on the specific Replication Agent capabilities.

See the Replication Server Administration Guide for a general discussion of subscription materialization, and see the appropriate Replication Agent documentation for details regarding a particular Replication Agent and its materialization support.