Murach's Beginning Visual Basic .NETThis chapter introduces you to the concepts and terms that help you understand how database access works in VB.NET. Then, the next two chapters show the basics of developing database applications. |
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| Chapter 16 | An introduction to database programming | |
| An introduction to muli-user database applications | 512 | |
| The hardware components of a multi-user system | 512 | |
| The software components of a multi-user database application | 514 | |
| An introduction to relational databases | 516 | |
| How a table is organized | 516 | |
| How the tables in a database are related | 518 | |
| How the fields in a table are defined | 520 | |
| How to use SQL to work with the data in a relational database | 522 | |
| How to query a single table | 522 | |
| How to join data from two or more tables | 524 | |
| How to add, update, and delete data in a table | 526 | |
| An introduction to ADO.NET | 528 | |
| How the basic ADO.NET components work | 528 | |
| How a dataset is organized | 530 | |
| Concurrency and the disconnected data architecture | 532 | |
| Perspective | 534 | |
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