Product Description 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 From the Back Cover Build highly scalable C# and Visual Basic.NET applications for SQL Server, Oracle, DB/2, or MySQL databases In this hands-on guide, two working developers reveal how to build highly scalable database applications on the Microsoft.NET Framework. Drawing on years of real-world experience, Wally McClure and John Croft explain how to engineer a scalable system, from balancing performance tradeoffs to pinpointing potential bottlenecks. They give you a succinct overview of C# and Visual Basic.NET and describe how these languages work together with ASP.NET, Windows services, components, MSMQ, and ADO.NET. They disclose scalability secrets for storing and retrieving data and processing transactions. And finally, they demonstrate how to access data and optimize performance with four leading RDBMS-SQL Server, Oracle, DB/2, and MySQL. Packed with practical tips and code examples, this one-of-a-kind book is your ticket to.NET database application success. You'll lea