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 ...

Take advantage of the Dapper ORM’s support for asynchronous operations to bring fast data access to your ASP.NET Core applications Dapper is an open source, lightweight “micro ORM” that supports many ...

I had been passing username/password strings directly into the ADO.NET connection string, however this means that if a user has a quote character in his password, it borks the ConnectionString and ...

Ok, I have some database-driven pages that I take care of, using ASP and SQL Server 2000. I will be adding more, and if I can make changes that are beneficial, then that is good.<BR>There are 2 ways ...

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