Patent 7424493 was granted and assigned to Microsoft on September, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Processing database objects via a database pipeline having a plurality of stages. The invention provides a replication mechanism for propagating selected data from a database in one stage to a database in another stage without accessing a file system. Each database stage may have a plurality of input and output pipes. The invention enables a user to select a subset of the database objects in each stage for propagation to a subsequent stage.