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ODBC is not dead

(Tony Patton) One of the .NET Framework features often highlighted is its new data access model, ADO.NET. Some of its improvements over its predecessors include scalability, speed, and its disconnected nature features. A .NET data provider is used to access a database system; a good example is t

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Query Rewrite (Sample Chapter)

(Lilian Hobbs, Susan Hillson, Shilpa Lawande and Pete Smith) In Chapter 7, we described materialized views, which can be used to precompute and store results of frequently used queries. A major benefit of doing this is that you can use query rewrite to transparently rewrite queries to use these mate