Adam Machanic has posted a month ago an article about SqlDataReader performance tips. One about using an indexer with the ordinal position, a second one about avoiding the Get methods and a third about opening and closing the reader.

Especially the last one is something we all sometimes forget. Thanks to Adam for these tips! :)

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As we know every database is build from two files on disk. The first file contains all data and the second file contains the log of the database. The log file grows and grows and grows...

Thanks to the blog of Dave Donaldson i found a link to a website about connection strings for any type of database. The link to the website is:

www.connectionstrings.com