[...]... Warning with Asynchronous Operations 26 5 26 6 26 7 26 9 27 1 27 2 27 5 27 6 Multiple Active Result Sets 27 6 What Is MARS Useful For? Technical Issues with MARS 27 7 27 7 Enumerating SQL Servers Connection Pooling Password Management Building a SQL Connection with the SqlConnectionStringBuilder Class 27 8 27 9 28 0 28 1 SQL Server Types (SqlTypes) 28 3 Structures Using SqlTypes Using SqlDbType Bulk Copy with SQL Server. .. Information Chapter 9: T -SQL Language and Enhancements An In-Depth Look at T -SQL Structured Exception Handling OUTPUT Top X Common Table Expressions PIVOT UNPIVOT Ranking Summary For More Information 23 3 23 3 23 4 23 5 23 8 24 0 24 9 25 0 25 2 25 4 25 6 25 6 26 4 26 4 Chapter 10: ADO.NET Programming with SQL Server from a Client Application 26 5 SQL Server and ADO.NET Asynchronous Commands in ADO.NET BeginExecuteNonQuery... Information Chapter 16: ADO.NET 2 and Open-Source Databases 405 405 405 406 4 12 4 12 418 418 419 422 422 422 425 426 426 427 428 428 428 430 4 32 4 32 436 438 460 464 465 465 Open Source and Licensing Databases 465 466 MySQL MaxDB (formerly SAPdb) Firebird Ingres PostgreSQL BerkeleyDB SQLite 466 477 485 4 92 497 5 02 508 Summary For More Information xxii 5 12 513 Contents Chapter 17: Oracle and ADO.NET 515 Choosing... Provider Statistics SqlCacheDependency 28 4 28 7 29 0 29 1 29 2 29 3 xix Contents SqlCacheDependencyAdmin SqlDependency Summary For More Information Chapter 11: SQL Server 20 05 Server- Side Programming Extended Stored Procedures CLR Objects Set-Based Programming Procedural Programming Using CLR Objects Creating CLR Objects SQL Server Projects Assemblies and CLR Object Tables/Functions Triggers SqlTriggerContext... XmlReader Enhancements Designer Enhancements XML Designer XSL Debugging XSD Enhancements Security XPathDocument 120 120 120 121 121 122 123 124 124 124 125 126 127 128 Editing Validation Change Notification 128 131 133 XSLT Improvements Performance Where XML Is Heading 134 134 135 XPath 2. 0 XSLT 2. 0 and XQuery XML Views ObjectSpaces 135 135 136 136 Summary For More Information 137 137 Chapter 6: Transactions... Information Chapter 8: Building a Custom ADO.NET Data Provider A Brief Overview AdsConnection AdsConnectionStringBuilder AdsCommand AdsDataReader User Properties versus Active Directory Properties Other AdsDataReader Members AdsDataAdapter AdsFactory xviii 163 164 164 165 166 167 169 170 175 176 185 189 191 1 92 1 92 1 92 197 199 199 20 1 20 2 20 3 20 9 21 1 21 9 22 1 22 6 22 8 23 1 Contents Getting Ready for Use Summary... are very tightly related Many of the new features in ADO.NET 2. 0 are designed to be used with Microsoft SQL Server 20 05, and many of the new features found in SQL 20 05 require ADO.NET 2. 0 to get the most benefit from them It wouldn’t be practical to speak strictly about ADO.NET without providing some basic working knowledge about what’s new in SQL 20 05 Most people will likely move to both technologies... (FLOAT (24 )) and FLOAT (FLOAT and DOUBLE PRECISION) NUMERIC and DECIMAL (DEC and DEC(p,s)) MONEY and SMALLMONEY BINARY, VARBINARY, IMAGE, and VARBINARY(MAX) (BINARY VARYING) Using BINARY to Store Flags BIT TIMESTAMP SQL_ VARIANT UNIQUEIDENTIFIER XML TABLE and CURSOR Data Types in ADO.NET and NET SqlTypes Other Alternatives Mapping SQL Server Data Types to NET Summary For More Information Chapter 5: ADO.NET. .. The Generic Factory Model Providers ADO.NET to the Rescue DbProviderFactories Generic Factory versus Specific Providers Pros Cons Writing a Helper Class Data Sources Connection Strings Connection String Collection Intelligent Connection Strings Provider-Specific Connection Strings xiv 22 22 23 23 24 24 25 26 26 28 30 30 31 31 32 33 34 35 35 37 37 39 39 40 40 41 42 43 44 46 47 47 47 48 51 53 54 54 55... the Database xx 29 7 29 7 300 300 301 301 3 02 3 02 303 303 304 306 310 311 311 313 313 314 318 319 324 324 326 327 327 328 328 329 329 330 331 331 3 32 334 336 337 338 341 343 Contents Creating an Endpoint Summary For More Information Chapter 12: Notification Services Major Components Subscription Management Application Event Provider Generator Distributor Instances and Applications Configuring the Instance . ffirs.qxd 10 /28 /05 10:49 PM Page iii Professional ADO. NET 2 Programming with SQL Server 20 05, Oracle®, and MySQL 01_584375 ffirs.qxd 10 /28 /05 10:49 PM Page i 01_584375 ffirs.qxd 10 /28 /05 10:49. ffirs.qxd 10 /28 /05 10:49 PM Page iii Professional ADO. NET 2 Programming with SQL Server 20 05, Oracle®, and MySQL Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc. 10475 Crosspoint Boulevard Indianapolis, IN 4 625 6 www.wiley.com Copyright. 10:49 PM Page i 01_584375 ffirs.qxd 10 /28 /05 10:49 PM Page ii Professional ADO. NET 2 Programming with SQL Server 20 05, Oracle®, and MySQL Wallace B. McClure Gregory A. Beamer John J. Croft IV J.