Consultancy

I created this site as a free resource for SQL Server DBAs who are interested in learning more about replication. The contents reflect several years of implementing replication projects along with answering over 5000 Microsoft newsgroup questions.

In many cases you'll find that SQL Server Books-on-Line and the articles and FAQs on this site will be enough to overcome any special difficulties you might have when setting up and maintaining replication. However if you do want to hire a specialist consultant to help out - in London or elsewhere - then please email me at Paul.Ibison@ReplicationAnswers.Com.

I've listed some of the companies below who have previously hired me as a replication specialist.

Monitech	USA (North Carolina) producer of alcohol ignition interlock devices. Troubleshooting of merge-over-HTTPS issues and performing general optimization. All done via email and file transfer.

Alliance Boots	UK pharmaceutical retailer. Migration of production merge replication setup onto another server while minimising the impact on existing systems.

Jupiter Systems	UK veterinary software supplier. Health check of existing merge setup and some improvements made to the identity range setup.

Britz Fertilizers Inc	USA (California) agricultural retailer and wholesaler. Conceptual design of merge replication topology. All done via telephone calls, email and file transfer.

Reed Business Information (RBI)	UK business information and magazine publisher. Standardisation of the merge publications for each magazine, general problem-solving and training of production DBAs on replication support.

Ashfield In2Focus	UK medical staffing recruitment consultancy. Troubleshooting of the existing connectivity problems in the data migration strategy and evaluation of replication as a possible solution.

Petroleum GeoServices (PGS)	Norwegian oil exploration and shipping company. Design and implementation of merge publication using dynamic filtering and joins. Topology consisted of a central publisher at head office replicating to 12 ships.