Quick takes from developers at work.
Tips, fixes and short write-ups on what developers ran into this week, in their own words.

Select data in the source and insert in the destination table.

Automating database migration from Oracle, Sybase, MySQL, and Access database to SQL Azure and SQL Server “Denali”.

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX) the native query language for SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS).

The main difference between the Deadlock and the Livelock is as under:

Replication is the process of copying/moving data between databases on the same or different servers.

SQL Server constraints enable the RDBMS enforce the integrity of the database automatically, without needing you to create triggers, rule or defaults.

Lock Escalation is the process of converting a lot of low level locks into higher level locks.

By reading this blog you will know how to find out SQL Server parse and compile time of a SQL statement.

A Scalar user-defined function returns one of the scalar data types

There are three standard storage modes (MOLAP, ROLAP and HOLAP) in OLAP applications.
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