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 ...

The latter uses two different connections and so isn't maxing your pool, but it's significantly slower (a lot of times the biggest overhead in a database call is the connection). <br><br>ADO.Net ...

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 ...

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Data access protocols that use HTTP as the transport and adhere to the Representational State Transfer (REST) architectural style are challenging traditional binary and Extensible Markup Language (XML ...

Oracle has a long history in Visual Studio and Windows shops, but getting Oracle, VS, and related Microsoft technologies to play together nicely can require a little bit of special effort on the ...

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 ...

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 ...