Chapter 22. Programming with ADO.NET
In Chapter 21, "Basic Concepts of Relational Databases," you learned how to access data stored in databases by using a universal data-manipulation language, SQL, and the Transact-SQL (T-SQL) extensions of SQL Server 2008. However, you can't maintain a real database by executing SQL statements from within SQL Server's Management Studio. You need special applications that access the database, display relevant data on a Windows or web form, and submit the changes made to the data by the user back to the database. These applications are known as front-end applications, because they interact with the user and update the data on a database server, or a back-end data store. They're also known as data-driven applications ...
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