Learning About Relational Database Data

Literally hundreds of techniques, tips, tricks, and libraries are associated with relational databases. Covering relational databases would take an entire a book, and in fact, many books are devoted to that subject. This chapter will cover the basics and give you enough knowledge to read and write to a database.

The focus of this chapter is to demonstrate accessing relational databases with ADO.NET and the Visual Studio Dataset Designer. Since we'll need a database to work with, you'll also learn how to create a database with Visual C# Express.