Note: This article is excerpted from Chapter 7, "Creating a Shared Database," of Microsoft .NET and J2EE Interoperability Toolkit [Microsoft Press, 2003, ISBN: 0735619220]. It has been edited for ...

Relational databases aren't designed to make programming against them easier, but to ensure performance, data consistency and concurrency. Seldom do developers work directly with data in the form that ...

Learn how to turn ADO.NET classes into tools for constructing software using C# in Mahesh Chand's book, A Programmer's Guide to ADO.NET in C#. The majority of software developed for business relies ...

A connection to a database is a resource intensive operation that typically comprises a few steps. A channel of communication between the application and the database should be established before the ...