LINQ to SQL went gold a few months ago with the release of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5. It has been somewhat quiet since then – and as we near the launch of Visual Studio 2008, you may be wondering what we have been up to. Things aren...

Query Performance During this post I’ll show a few patterns on how to improve the query performance. A major design element for performance is the query cache. Once a query is executed, parts of the query are maintained in a global cache. Because...

Performance Matters No matter what type of application you are developing at some point in the lifecycle of a software application or service, performance matters; this is especially true when accessing data. In this article, I’m going to spend some...