Merge Replication in Microsoft's SQL Server 7.0

Summary: Merge Replication enables concurrent updates at multiple replicas with later merge, ideal for disconnected autonomy. A dedicated Merge Agent propagates changes, applies filters, and enforces user-specified conflict resolution rules. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3202
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1999
Pagerank: -
Overall Rank: 14,182 | 3.04%
DOI: 10.1145/304182.304243

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Authors

1. Brad Hammond (Microsoft)

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@inproceedings{hammond_sigmod99,
        title = {{Merge Replication in Microsoft's SQL Server 7.0}},
        author = {Hammond, Brad},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '99},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/304182.304243},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/304182.304243},
        year = {1999}
}

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