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You could imagine a scenario, where one of the tables in your local database need to be periodically updated. For Windows Phone Local Database, there is no support for Sync Framework or similar technologies, so you may have to simply add a bunch of rows to your table, based on data retrieved from a web service. This blog post explores how SQL Server Compact on the device does INSERTs, and how batch INSERTs can be tweaked for optimum performance.