An ORM (Object Relational Mapping) tool is one that is used to abstract the data access logic of your application. You can use ORM to bridge the apparent mismatch between the data and the object ...

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Microsoft announced Entity Framework 6.3 Preview, which takes the traditional open source object-relational mapping (ORM) framework to the .NET Core space, joining Entity Framework Core as an option ...

Software architects face an important technical problem when they must decide how to best interact with backend database systems. The decision often comes down to the Hibernate vs. JDBC debate, as the ...

LINQ to SQL continues to be a top contender in the .NET object/relational mapping tool market despite Microsoft's promotion of the Entity Framework as one of the "Pillars of SQL Server 2008: Dynamic ...

Many Web applications exist to provide access to copious amounts of data stored in a relational database, but what’s the easiest way to enable users to search through that data and find what they need ...

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. MicroStream 5.0 has arrived… and, now, the Java persistence framework is open source. MicroStream is a ...

Last month, we began looking at Ruby on Rails, a Web development framework that has captured a great deal of attention in only a short time. Much of the success of Rails is due to the ease with which ...