You have just spent some time going over object storage and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) . This may have been a new approach to storage for you, as .NET developers tend to be more familiar with the concept of file-based storage. In this chapter, we are going to return to more “standard” .NET development approaches and talk about one of the most common .NET data persistence approaches around, that of storing data in Microsoft SQL Server.
We will go over the two different ...