There's no doubt that Entity Framework with LINQ is great (I've certainly written enough articles about it). But Entity Framework comes at a cost. As Matthew Jones points out on his blog, using ...

Microsoft would like you to use ADO to access your data, but is it the right solution for you? Follow along with our step-by-step example to learn more about this technology and see what advantages ...

For example, creating new policies may require a first one or more deployables, while updating policy data may require a second one or more deployables, and so forth. Given the volume of data to be ...

Switching from traditional software engineering to building modern cloud apps requires multiple changes on several levels, with data-related security often mistakenly pushed to the margins. But in ...

AI agents run on file systems using standard tools to navigate directories and read file paths. The challenge, however, is that there is a lot of enterprise data in object storage systems, notably ...

Unstructured data is huge – in all senses. There is lots of it, and file or object sizes can be large. Go back just a decade and the predominant method of storage for unstructured data would have been ...