Online Library Internet News Internet Investing Internet Technology Windows Internet Tech. On-Line Next level recognizes changes made to information in a database and sends these changes to the remote system or systems for their use. Microsoft has employed what is called loose integration in its replication model. You might have heard of the phrase real-enough time in systems implementation.
Loose integration follows the real-enough time model.
This means that information will flow across the system of servers not in real-time and not necessarily in batch mode but as quickly as it can. It was certainly not real-time as no live connection was maintained between sites. With the e-mail system you're certain that your transactions are going to make it to the destination when a connection is completed between the remote system and yours. SQL Server synchronizes the database tables almost immediately in many cases but not concurrently with the transaction that made the original change that is to be replicated. Certainly there are pros and cons to this approach.