Essential ADO.NET

Foreword by Richard Grimes

Just about every part of our lives is controlled by a database. Everything that we do is categorized and persisted and then analyzed and returned back to us as a mailshot or a marketing campaign. If you develop software, then you'll find that a database will be somewhere in the solution. Clearly databases are important and a deep knowledge of how to access them effectively and to manipulate the data that they hold is vitally important. Data comes in all shapes and sizes, and there are various different ways of storing data. If you are lucky enough to work with just one database then you can become an expert with the API to access that database. However, few solutions use a single data source, and even with those that ...