data reader

This tutorial is part of Database Programming Made Easy Series.

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In this tutorial you'll learn how to retrieve and save data back to the database using Data Readers and ExecuteNonQuery.

Microsoft Access database and Microsoft SQL Server sample is provided.

This tutorial is part of Database Programming Made Easy Series.

Retrieving data in Visual Basic .NET is now become easy compare to VB 6.0. In VB .NET you will have the privileged of modifying a data in offline mode.

The purpose for this is to eliminate for resources from the server. If you are thinking about concurrency, then you don’t have to worry because it is the work of Data Adapter to resolve problem with multiple users accessing the same row(s).

This tutorial is part of Database Programming Made Easy Series.

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Data reader is like an ado forward-only/read-only client side record set. Data reader is best suited if you only need to retrieve data, that is, you don't want to save the data back to the database. To retrieve and save the data you need a dataset which will be discuss in the next topic.