Relational databases aren't designed to make programming against them easier, but to ensure performance, data consistency and concurrency. Seldom do developers work directly with data in the form that ...

In a significant move for those who develop .NET applications targeting Oracle databases, Microsoft is removing the Oracle data provider from its ADO.NET roadmap. Microsoft said yesterday it decided ...

Microsoft would like you to use ADO to access your data, but is it the right solution for you? Follow along with our step-by-step example to learn more about this technology and see what advantages ...

Data access protocols that use HTTP as the transport and adhere to the Representational State Transfer (REST) architectural style are challenging traditional binary and Extensible Markup Language (XML ...

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 ...