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 ...

ADO.Net really really wants you to use connection pooling because it saves on overhead for everyone. It allos you to close the connection (less network bandwith) but quickly reconnect if need be (less ...

I had been passing username/password strings directly into the ADO.NET connection string, however this means that if a user has a quote character in his password, it borks the ConnectionString and ...