Question

Is it possible to use SQL Server’s replication service to replicate from table A on a given server to a different schema on table B?

ie,

Table A
———-
ID
int
Name varchar(20)
Data
text

Table B
———-
ID
int
Name varchar(20)
Description varchar(10)

Replication would copy “Name” from table A to table B for a given ID.

It is possible to choose specific columns within a table as article data, however, I’m not sure if it is possible to then map that data on the subscription side.

Answer 1

Replication services were something I was interested in for this issue, however, in getting lost in a nice tool, I overlooked a simpler solution.

For reference, the solution we ended up going with was scheduling a stored procedure as a job, which continually updates a given data set.