Did you know that ADO.NET implicitly converts a parameterized ad-hoc SQL into a call to sp_executesql? Did you further know that if you do not explicitly tell ADO.NET the SqlDbType of your parameter, ...

I need to create a three table inner join. It works correctly in SQL Analyzer, but fails when I run it inside ADO.NET.<BR>Here is a simplified query of what I am trying to do:<BR><BR>SELECT a.ID, b.ID ...

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 ...

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 ...

So much of modern programming is about string manipulation. Whether it’s parsing XML content, building HTML for the browser or trying to understand what the user just typed into that text entry field, ...

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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 ...