Chapter 22. Database: SQL, MySQL, ADO.NET 2.0 and Java DB

 

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.

 
 --Arthur Conan Doyle
 

Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever.

 
 --The Holy Bible, Isaiah 30:8
 

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

 
 --Mark Twain
 

I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.

 
 --Mae West

OBJECTIVES

In this chapter you will learn:

  • Relational database concepts.

  • To use Structured Query Language (SQL) to retrieve data from and manipulate data in a database.

  • To install and configure MySQL.

  • To create a MySQL database.

  • The ADO.NET 2.0 object model.

Outline

22.1

Introduction

22.2

Relational Databases

25.3

Relational Database ...

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