Database Connectivity with ADO.NET

Database connectivity has become a routine component of today's distributed application development. A key requirement set by the diverse architectures in today's enterprise and the number of competing database products available is for an application design to be relatively independent from the underlying database, at least from a connectivity perspective.

ADO (ActiveX Database Objects) has come a long way in fulfilling this objective of providing a seamless object-oriented database-independent mechanism of interacting with relational databases. Also, developers have specifically benefited from the key productivity improvements provided by the ADO rich programming model, which is well used by object-oriented ...

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