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 ...

I've got a fairly large legacy fat-client app that needs some performance improvements in its DB access since the powers that be have decided to relocate the SQL servers that the client talks to about ...

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