Summary
Chapter 1 looked at what ASP.NET is, and Chapter 2 looked at what ADO.NET is. This chapter pulled the two pieces together.
In this chapter you learned that the ADO.NET Managed Providers are the bridge from a data store to your data-driven application. The Managed Providers come in two stock flavors: the SQL Managed Provider and the OleDb Managed Provider. The SQL Managed Provider is used to connect directly to a Microsoft SQL Server database (version 7.0 or higher), and bypasses OLEDB to provider better performance. The OleDb Managed Provider is used to connect to non-Microsoft SQL Server databases, such as Access, Oracle, and a host of others.
In this chapter you created connections to a database, built command objects to execute SQL ...
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