Chapter 19. Accessing Databases

An enterprise application usually has a relational database management system (RBDMS) as its backend data storage. Most enterprise applications involve a component that interacts with these RDBMS systems. Not surprisingly, both Java and C# come equipped with APIs that make it a breeze to access and work with databases. C# uses the ADO.NET API, which is not limited to accessing relational databases. In fact the API is not limited to accessing databases at all. In theory, you can use ADO.NET to access any kind of data store, including object-oriented database management systems (OODBMSs), data files, and e-mail messages. Java's JDBC 3.0 API is focused on accessing RDBMSs.

This chapter discusses the C# APIs only ...

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