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 ...

Hello Friends, In this blog we will try to understand what exactly ADO.NET/ Entity Framework connection pooling is? And we will also go through some important points related to connection pooling. So ...

Embedding connection strings in your application's code can lead to security vulnerabilities and maintenance problems. Unencrypted connection strings compiled into an application's source code can be ...

The ADO NET source consumes data from a .NET provider and makes the data available to the data flow. The DT_NTEXT data type can also be converted to the DT_BYTES or DT_STR data type by using a Data ...

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 ...

Faster performance in business applications comes down to reducing the "critical two" -- disk I/O and trips to the server. Doing that means doing a lot of things right, starting with your database ...

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 ...