Enterprise Data Synchronization with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server Compact 3.5 Mobile Merge Replication [Paperback]

Rob Tiffany (Author), Catherine Wyatt (Editor), Liam Cavanagh (Foreword)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 26, 2009

With the world's largest organizations rolling out tens of thousands of Microsoft Windows® Phones, Slates, laptops, tablets and netbooks to empower their respective mobile workforces, the ability to create mobile line of business solutions that support large numbers of users is absolutely critical. In his fourth book on mobile infrastructure and development, Rob Tiffany shows you how to take the SQL Server data you use to run your organization and make it available to all of your mobile employees.

Step-by-step, he walks you through the process of building a secure, performant, n-tier mobile synchronization architecture designed to scale to thousands of users. You'll also learn how to create occasionally-connected .NET applications designed to thrive in unreliable wireless conditions. Take the guesswork out of mobilizing your organization by tapping into the experience of one of the world's foremost authorities on mobile and wireless infrastructure and development.

• Learn how to "Mobilize" your organization by making your enterprise data available to employees carrying Windows® phones, laptops, netbooks and tablets in the field.
• Learn how to build an N-Tier Mobile Merge Replication infrastructure that will scale to thousands of users.
• Learn how to create occasionally-connected .NET applications designed to thrive in unreliable wireless conditions.
• Learn best practices in security, reliability, performance, load-balancing, reverse proxy and hardware configuration from the author's years of replication experience.
• Learn how to implement this technology in real world scenarios like supply chain management, retail, sales force automation, healthcare and emergency management.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Rob Tiffany is an Architect at Microsoft focused on designing and delivering the best possible mobile solutions for his global customers.  His expertise lies in combining wireless data technologies, device hardware, mobile software, and optimized on-premise and cloud server infrastructures together to form compelling solutions.  Prior to his current role, Rob was a Senior Technical Product Manager for Windows Mobile in Microsoft's Mobile and Embedded Devices (MED) division where he focused on growing the mobile developer ecosystem.  He was also responsible for planning and running one of Microsoft's largest global developer conferences.  Prior to joining Microsoft, Rob founded one of the industry's first mobile device management companies.

A writer, speaker, entrepreneur and 17-year veteran of the software industry, Rob has been involved in some of the world's largest Mobile/Wireless Line of Business application efforts undertaken to date. He's the creator of Microsoft's Mobile Line of Business Solution Accelerator, he's written dozens of articles found in leading software development publications and he's the author of four books including:

• "Windows Mobile Data Synchronization with SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server Compact 3.1"
• "SQL Server CE Database Development with the .NET Compact Framework"
• "Pocket PC Database Development with eMbedded Visual Basic"

In his latest book, "Enterprise Data Synchronization with SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server Compact 3.5," Rob describes how to build large systems that scale to tens of thousands of mobile devices. He's presented sessions on mobile development, infrastructure, and architecture at events all over the world including Tech Ed, Dev Connections, TechReady, VS Live, and MEDC.

Rob blogs at robtiffany.com and you can follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/robtiffany.

Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Hood Canal Press (June 26, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0979891213
• ISBN-13: 978-0979891212
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.6 x 9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,357,911 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

A bestselling author of fiction and non-fiction books, Rob Tiffany has spent the last decade combining his military past with his high-tech present to take readers from the depths of the ocean to the world of mobile apps. Rob served with the Navy SEALs on a special ops delivery vehicle and patrolled the seas on a Trident submarine. As an Architect at the world's largest software company, he's in-demand as an advisor to executives and a speaker at conferences all over the world.

He lives in the Pacific Northwest and you can learn more about him by subscribing to his blog at http://robtiffany.com and following him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/robtiffany.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Enterprise data synchronization, a practical guide. March 12, 2010

By AHM Steenveld

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This book by Rob Tiffany is an excelent example of 'How To Get Things Done'. With easy reading text a whole system is configured from scratch without too much fuss on 'why' and 'what'. System integrity, security and performace are major points of concern in his book.

In no time you have a system up and running and this book gives enouch information to extend it on your own once you have a working system.

This is a book for the practical minded engineer, for use in a project that has a deadline to keep, for testing the feasability of some idea. It gets you started in a minimum of time.

It is clearly not a book discussing all kind of possiblities of a product or technique. It is also not a book for a starting engineer, some knowledge about systems and databases is a must.

Books like this are helpfull in delivering what the customer ask in time. More books like this needs to be written.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A "must have" for anyone replicating data with SQLCE September 1, 2009

By Reed R. Robinson

Format:Paperback

Rob is the real deal. He wrote this book from the trenches...hands on, real-world deployments. Simply put, he is the guy Microsoft would drop-ship into the biggest, most strategic, and difficult SQLCE replication deployments out there with a directive to "make it succeed". This book is filled with prescriptive, real-world advice on how to do it right.

If you are doing replication with SQL Server Compact Edition (SQLCE), this will be the best $20 you will ever spend.

-Reed

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Concise with no distractions December 28, 2009

By Richard Collette

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I was pleasantly surprised at how concise this book is in presenting a scalable data synchronization architecture and the actual configuration steps for implementing it. It reads mostly like a setup guide or instruction manual rather than a discussion.