Data Connection Groups (ILM)

A data connection group is a set of data connections that provides a relay in case the primary database goes down. Remote databases continue to get data from either primary or secondary data connections through the replication processes. You switch from a data connection to another in the Data Connection Group property sheet.

In the following example, US_ReplicationProcess reads data in Washington, and writes data in Boston. If the data connection to Boston fails, Stand_By Boston is the relay:

• Creating a Data Connection Group
  You can create a data connection group in any of the following ways:
• Data Connection Group Properties
  You can modify an object's properties from its property sheet. To open a data connection group property sheet, double-click its Browser entry in the Data Connections Group folder. The following sections detail the property sheet tabs that contain the properties most commonly entered for data connections groups.

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Created October 7, 2009. Send feedback on this help topic to Sybase Technical Publications: pubs@sybase.com