Murach's ASP.NET 3.5 with VB 2008
An introduction to database programming

This chapter presents the concepts and terms that apply to database applications in general and to ADO.NET processing in particular. Because almost any business web application has to deal with database data, this is information you must know.

Chapter 12 An introduction to database programming
An introduction to relational databases 366
How a table is organized 366
How the tables in a database are related 368
How the columns in a table are defined 370
The design of the Halloween database 372
How to use SQL to work with the data in a relational database 374
How to query a single table 374
How to join data from two or more tables 376
How to add, update, and delete data in a table 378
An introduction to ADO.NET 3.5 380
How the basic ADO.NET components work 380
Concurrency and the disconnected data architecture 382
How to work with data without using a data adapter 384
An introduction to the ADO.NET 3.5classes 386
The SqlConnection class 386
The SqlCommand class 386
The SqlParameter class 388
The SqlDataReader class 388
The SqlDataAdapter class 388




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