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 ...

Use profiler.<br><br>SQL leaves them open for a time for the connection pooling of course. -- View image here: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/infopop/emoticons/icon ...

There's no doubt that Entity Framework with LINQ is great (I've certainly written enough articles about it). But Entity Framework comes at a cost. As Matthew Jones points out on his blog, using ...

Microsoft would like you to use ADO to access your data, but is it the right solution for you? Follow along with our step-by-step example to learn more about this technology and see what advantages ...

In this article I’d like to present a discussion on concurrency handling, concurrency violations and the strategies involved to resolve concurrency conflicts. Concurrency violations: when and why do ...

describes the SqlConnection object and how to connect to a data base. Here are the objectives of this lesson: • Know what connection objects are used for. • Learn how to instantiate a SqlConnection ...