Summary

In this hour, you've seen a comparison of the DataAdapter and DataReader objects. You saw how the DataReader object opens a fast, read-only, forward-only view of the data from your data source. The DataReader object's methods were explained in detail. Lastly, you saw some of the pitfalls associated with the DataReader.

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