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 closes pooled connections (and removes them from the pool) after a random time between 4 and 8 minutes. If there is no activity on your web application for 8 minutes, there should be no ...

Leverage ADO.Net's ability to work in disconnected mode to enable your application to stay disconnected to the database, conserve the system resources, and reduce the network traffic Microsoft’s ...

ADO.NET is the latest implementation of Microsoft s Universal Data Access strategy. In the past few years, classic ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) has gone through many changes, bug fixes, and enhancements ...

I had been passing username/password strings directly into the ADO.NET connection string, however this means that if a user has a quote character in his password, it borks the ConnectionString and ...

Learn how to turn ADO.NET classes into tools for constructing software using C# in Mahesh Chand's book, A Programmer's Guide to ADO.NET in C#. The majority of software developed for business relies ...

Oracle has a long history in Visual Studio and Windows shops, but getting Oracle, VS, and related Microsoft technologies to play together nicely can require a little bit of special effort on the ...

Microsoft's most recent Web-driven database technology is ADO.NET, although only the first three letters of its name have been a throwback to its predecessor: There's nothing "ActiveX" about ADO.NET ...