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• Databases : Microsoft SQL Server
• Databases : SQL Server 2005
• Web Design/Development : ASP.NET

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Pro SQL Server High Performance: High-speed ASP.NET Data Access explains how to use ASP.NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005 most efficiently together. It covers all crucial performance issues and illustrates optimal techniques with enterprise-quality development.

Performance is always an issue, and optimizing database access is one of the most daunting performance challenges facing web developers. With Brennan Stehling as your guide, you'll explore the many overlaps of web and database technologies, including configuration, programming, performance tuning, and deployment. You'll learn how to make high-performance database access not just a goal, but a reality.

What you'll learn

* Discover what impedes ASP.NET 2.0 access to SQL Server 2005 and how to make web applications and databases work blindingly fast together.
* Learn to make the subtle choices between DataSets, DataReaders, and DataObjects, to simplify code and maximize performance.
* Optimize data-bound controls and create your own.
* See when a custom database provider is advisable and how to build one.
* Understand how to monitor and measure web/database performance.
* Learn to build, deploy, and configure enterprise-level web applications against SQL Server 2005.

Who is this book for?

Anyone involved in .NET web development will find this book invaluable. Whether you're struggling just to handle traffic or scaling up to meet demand, you'll find all the tools, tips, and techniques you need for high-performance web access to databases. If you want to build enterprise-level web database applications 100% of the time, this book will tell—and show—you how to do it.

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Table of Contents

About the Author
About the Technical Reviewer
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 Getting Started
Chapter 2 Data Model Choices
Chapter 3 Database Management
Chapter 4 Databound Controls
Chapter 5 SQL Providers
Chapter 6 Caching
Chapter 7 Manual Data Access Layer
Chapter 8 Generated Data Access Layer
Chapter 9 Deployment
Chapter 10 A Sample Application
Appendix Photo Album
Index

About the Author

Brennan Stehling is a consultant in Milwaukee who specializes in web, console, and desktop development projects. He's worked with .NET for several years, particularly since the .NET 2.0 Beta 1 release. He blogs regularly on .NET topics at http://brennan.offwhite.net/blog/. He also develops reusable tools in C# and makes them available to developers at SmallSharpTools.com. In his spare time, Brennan plays Gaelic hurling, an Irish sport that has become popular in Milwaukee over the past 10 years.

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