This is one of those topics that always generate a lot of heat among developers, architects and DBAs etc. People typically take a very strong stance on one approach over the other. As most of the IT situations, the answer to this question is : “It Depends...

Often most of my customer seek guidance on data strategy based on ADO.Net technologies stack such as ADO.NET DAL, LINQ and Entity Framework and the Data Services. The choices for developers/architects are: 1) Traditional ADO.Net Provider Model ...