A connection to a database is a resource intensive operation that typically comprises a few steps. A channel of communication between the application and the database should be established before the ...

ADO.NET Data Services supports integer, double, decimal, string, boolean, and dateTime data types, which the following functions accept or return as noted. Queries use these functions in the same ...

Faster performance in business applications comes down to reducing the "critical two" -- disk I/O and trips to the server. Doing that means doing a lot of things right, starting with your database ...