This infographic explains database replication as the process of continuously copying relational database contents into another environment for both operational and analytical use. For analytics, replication moves data into warehouses to support dashboards, reporting, and predictive models. For operations, it synchronizes environments to balance workloads, reduce latency, ensure high availability, and provide disaster recovery. Two main methods are snapshot syncs, which copy entire datasets but are slow and resource-intensive, and incremental updates, which use change data capture to replicate only modified records, enabling real-time, high-volume replication with minimal system impact.

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