Beginning C# 2008 Databases: From Novice to Professional

This book is for every C# programmer. It assumes no prior database experience and teaches through hands-on examples how to create and use relational databases with the standard database language SQL and how to access them with C#.

Assuming only basic knowledge of C# 3.0, Beginning C# 3.0 Databases teaches all the fundamentals of database technology and database programming readers need to quickly become highly proficient database users and application developers. A comprehensive tutorial on both SQL Server 2005 and ADO.NET 3.0, this book explains and demonstrates how to create database objects and program against them in both T-SQL and C#.

Almost every application needs to access a database, and this book concisely teaches all the fundamentals needed---and most that are ever needed---to develop professional database applications.