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 ...

describes the SqlConnection object and how to connect to a data base. Here are the objectives of this lesson: • Know what connection objects are used for. • Learn how to instantiate a SqlConnection ...

Faster performance in business applications comes down to reducing the "critical two" -- disk I/O and trips to the server. Doing that means doing a lot of things right, starting with your database ...