Chapter 10. The Microsoft Data Access Juggernaut
At some point, and in some way, you need to expose your SQL Server data so that client applications can consume it. From the perspective of the database, every consumer is a “client application”—whether you are building an application to communicate directly with Microsoft SQL Server (traditional client/server architecture), or you are building a middle-tier service layer that, in turn, is consumed by other types of client applications (n-tier architecture). Regardless of the nature of the consuming application, it is your responsibility as a professional developer to architect a data access layer that exchanges information between SQL Server and your application (or the tiers of your ...
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