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This chapter presented SQL commands and the necessary classes in .NET to invoke those commands on a relational database. This includes an overview of SQL syntax followed by examples using the SQL Server Data Provider to send SQL commands directly to the database. Hopefully this chapter explained how to send your own commands directly to the database and, equally important, how the DataSet uses commands to persist its data.
In the next three chapters, we continue exploring how to deal with data in Microsoft .NET. The next chapter explains data access using XML followed by a chapter explaining reading XML and another chapter explaining writing XML. These chapters will be focusing primarily on the set of classes used to read and write ...
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