Replication

Question

What agents contain Transactional/Snapshot/Merge/peer-peer Replication?

Is all replications contains same agents or different?

Answer 1

all replication type share the snapshot agent.

P2P, Snapshot and transactional share the log reader agent, and the distribution agent.

Merge publications only use the use the merge agent.

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Answer 2

Please see: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms152501.aspx