Building Highly Scalable Database Applications with .NET

Creating robust, highly available, highly scalable database applications is absolutely critical in today's web-based economy. Integrating various non-Microsoft database servers with Microsoft tools and technologies has not always proven to be an easy task. The new-paradigm of .NET development further complicates the issue, but also provides a powerful set of tools and technologies to build these mission-critical systems. With Building Highly Scalable database Applications with .NET, readers will be able to:

• Integrate .NET-based solutions with Oracle and DB2 and MySQL
• Harness the power of Microsoft's ADO.Net for high performance computing
• Build efficient components for maximum scalability
• Integrate with existing COM-based applications
• Maximize transaction speed and message queue efficiency
• Scale applications to a much higher level, resulting in an increase in the number of users or transactions

• Pt. I Introduction
• Ch. 1 Current Development Issues 3
• Ch. 2 The High-Performance .NET Architecture 13
• Pt. II Designing Databases and Middle-Tier Components for Maximum Scalability
• Ch. 3 Developing a Line of Business Applications 61
• Ch. 4 Transaction Processing 85
• Ch. 5 ADO.NET 107
• Ch. 6 .NET Components 155
• Ch. 7 Integration with COM Components 181
• Ch. 8 Threading and Windows Services 203
• Ch. 9 Message Queuing Integration 239
• Pt. III Specific Database Scaling Issues
• Ch. 10 SQL Server 263
• Ch. 11 Oracle 315
• Ch. 12 DB/2 Universal Database 371
• Ch. 13 MySQL 409
• App. A Overview of the Timesheet Application 451
• App. B Programming and Development Naming Standards 457
• App. C: Resources