Visual Studio Magazine

Creating the Right Database Initializer for Entity Framework

For example, the default option is to create a database initializer class that inherits from CreateDatabaseIfNotExists. With this option the first line of code that accesses the database triggers the ...
TheServerSide

3 ways to have JPA and Hibernate create tables in a database

Test-driven software must often drop, create and populate database tables with records before it runs a suite of unit tests. For this reason, the ability to have JPA frameworks -- such as EclipseLink ...
Visual Studio Magazine

High Performance Object-Oriented Data Access with Dapper

There's no doubt that Entity Framework with LINQ is great (I've certainly written enough articles about it). But Entity Framework comes at a cost. As Matthew Jones points out on his blog, using ...
MCPmag

Working with Database Users and Roles Using PowerShell

During the last few articles, we have covered the basics of working with SQL server using the Server Management Objects (SMO) and PowerShell. We have covered things such as viewing the state of ...
TheServerSide

Inside db40

db4o - database for objects - is a true object database; it manipulates objects in such a fashion that those objects retain their nature throughout their lifetimes - in or out of the database. Object ...