12 Setting Up Replication

Oracle Clinical supports establishing a study—that is, designing and defining it—in one location, and then copying the study design and definition to other locations.

Each recipient, or sharing location, can conduct the study on its own set of patients. Data collected in sharing locations can be copied back to the location where the study originated, that is, the study-owning location. From there, data can be copied to any other location that has a copy of the study definition.

In this way, each location that participates in a study views an up-to-date set of collected data. Each location can modify only the data collected at its sites; all other data for this study is read-only. This process of distributing a read-only copy of study designs, definitions, and data to other locations in the environment is called replication.

Note:

This section discusses the tasks required for a system administrator to prepare Oracle Clinical databases for replication. It does not describe the procedures for actually performing those replications. For those instructions, see Using Replication.

For more information, see:

• Replication Concepts
  
• Prerequisites to Setting Up Replication
  
• Setting Up Replication-Related Reference Codelist Values
  
• Setting Up the Database Links for Standard Replication
  
• Creating the Study Design Replication Packages
  
• Setting Up Symmetric Replication