LINQ to SQL continues to be a top contender in the .NET object/relational mapping tool market despite Microsoft's promotion of the Entity Framework as one of the "Pillars of SQL Server 2008: Dynamic ...

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The January 2006 Language Integrated Query (LINQ) preview for the next ("Orcas") version of Visual Basic enables automating SQL Server object-relational mapping for DLinq and enhances XLinq syntax for ...

Are we witnessing the end of SQL and relational databases? In a December DDJ podcast interview by Mike Riley, I was asked the question: “With the growing trend of ORMs (Object Relational Mapping), ...

I urge our readers to have a look at the “Vietnam of Computer Science” by Ted Neward, which compares the quagmire of the Vietnam War to the current quagmire that ...

Sitefinity CMS maker Telerik has decided to make its OpenAccess ORM tool free to software developers building data tools for database platforms like Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server and PostgreSQL. The ...

When XML came along five years ago, promising to rewrite the rules of data management, vendors of relational databases took note, but they didn’t panic. They’d already seen this movie a decade before, ...