Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for the performing of a replication task in a multi-database system, by a replication agent, for replicating a location range of columns in a table in a source repository data object, to a location range of columns in a target table in a target repository data object. An embodiment operates by using a data provisioning agent, remote source connection, and replication task controller in sequence to set up a replication task for execution.