Active Replication

[Jignesh H Shah]

Can someone explain me whats active replication is?. Where I can find some detail about it?.
Thanks
Jignesh Shah

[Vivek Viswanathan]

Hi
You could probally look for the same at www.whatis.com ....and search for it.
Vivek

[Ajit Kumar]

is 'Active Replication' and 'Active Directory Replication' the same??

[Jignesh H Shah]

As far as my understanding, Active replication can be used in Directory replication, object replication and database replication...etc. What is important for exam?

[Sergey Opanasets]

Active Replication is the replication between application's objects. That is obviously can be used to build fault-tolerant applications, normally real-time (like patient status tracking in hospital, or starship launching ;-) ) where importance of correct functioning is huge.

Active replication is the mean to guarantee that in case of a single object failuire the application can recover and use another object without loosing any data, or producing incorrect result.
"Active Directory Replication" is performed with similar goals, but this is just a small example of how fault tolerance strategy can be implemented. And "Active Directory Replication" serves other purposes ("not fault-tolerance") as well.