I've said it before and I'll say it again: If you want to speed up your application, don't look at your code, look at your data access. The two slowest things you can do in application development are ...

The indexes on a the tables of a large database make a huge difference in its performance and utility. Without an index, locating a single record in a large table can take several seconds; with the ...

I'm trying to add to a table in SQL Server by creating a connection in VB.NET. The table has very many columns. I can currently open the connection and write just fine, but I'm not sure I'm doing it ...