Can I have replication between two completely different schemas?

Hi SQL guys,

I have 2 different databases and an import tool that reads from one and fills the other one and then whenever we run it, it should synch the two databases and its kind of a heavy task. I was wondering if i can replace it with replication between these databases. I defined publisher and subscriber, but i cannot find anywhere that i can say which field in source maps to which field in destination.

Is it possible at all to have a replication between 2 databases with totally different schemas? If so, please let me know how.

Thanks,

Sina

No, the schemas should match. Aleast they should be compatible.|||

yes, you can, but only if the subscriber is not updating the data.

if you are only importing data from the publisher, then you can , what you need is create a transformable subscription, you use dts in that subscription to make all matching or convertions you need between source and destination.

Thank you

Armando Marrero

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hi Armando...

can you please brief the steps of making the matches between source and destination for transformable subscription.

Thanks in advance

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