<p>I am implementing replication for a project I am developing, and would like to replicate changes in the Write database to the Read database.</p>

<p>While this isn't a problem, I want to tune one database for reading from, and the other to writing to, so they would have different settings.</p>

<p>Is there any resource/guide which will tell me what concepts to look into? I'm not looking for a how to guide (then again, at this level, these tasks are very involved to have guides to).</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

Index your databases differently.   You probably need different indexes (maybe fewer indexes) to suppor the process of writing to the Write database than you do with the read database.   If an index is only used for reading, then leave it off the Write database.
I'm no expert on this, and my thinking might be fuzzy, but consider the hardware/memory/and even RAID configurations.   I can't remember.... would one RAID configuration be more suited for writing and another for reading, or is that wrong...?