Microsoft is enabling its free SQL CE (SQL Server Compact Edition) database to work within ASP.Net Web applications, thus providing a lightweight database option for ASP.Net Web development, a ...

SQL Bulk Insert has been tuned over the years to work well with the Microsoft .NET Framework. This tutorial shows you how to take advantage of its power.

You can use VB.NET or C# to write procedural code and create user-defined types and aggregates in SQL Server.

Database connectivity gives desktop and Web applications much of their value. .NET developers have products and framework objects that can tie a front-end application to SQL Server, MySQL, Sybase, ...

Decreasing page load time is imperative when dealing with Web site performance. Tony Patton explains how you can make this happen by using the .NET Caching API.