C# ADO.NET: Building Secure and Scalable Data Access (Mastering Database Management Series)

Why This Book: Choosing Data Access Patterns and Sound Database Design

Applications that talk to databases succeed or fail on the quality of their data layer. Choosing a poorly suited pattern, designing tables without normalization, or writing unstructured SQL leads to fragile code that is difficult to maintain. This book builds the insight needed to select the right pattern, model information sensibly, and write C# code that communicates with a database confidently.

What This Book Is About: From Fundamentals to Scalable Production Solutions

This book spans twenty-four modules that move from first principles to production practice. It begins with ADO.NET, database design, and SQL basics, then covers ADO.NET Core, providers, connections, readers, adapters, DataSets, validation, transactions, stored procedures, and XML. Later modules address security, concurrency, LINQ to SQL, Entity Framework, Dapper, performance tuning, scalability, and three real-world case studies, closing with a look at future trends in data access.

What You Will Learn from this Book: Core Techniques, Security, ORMs, and Performance

Data access patterns, database design, ERDs, normalization, and SQL fundamentals for C# developers ADO.NET Core features, migrating existing applications, built-in and third-party data providers, connection strings, and connection pooling Data readers, data adapters, DataSets, DataTables, data binding, and XML handling Validation, transactions, distributed transactions, stored procedures, and concurrency control SQL injection prevention, secure connections, paging, and bulk operations for large datasets LINQ to SQL, Entity Framework, Dapper, ORM selection, tuning, and load balancing