DD Class1

Into and Data Design

Read Syllabus

DD Syllabus

C# Review

Important c# concepts

• OOP Class2 C# fundamentals
• OOP Class3 Control Structures
• OOP Class4 Classes and Objects
• OOP Class7 Polymorphism fancy arrays

If you feel you need help with c# I strongly suggest getting and reading

Learning C# ,Jesse Liberty O'Reilly & Associates;
(September 2002), ISBN: 0596003765

History of Databases

Flat Files

Hierarchical Databases

Network Databases

Relational Databases

Microsoft API's

MDAC Microsoft Data Access Components

http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/learning/MDAC/

ODBC

Data access in c. Mature open protocol

OLEDB

Data access in c++. More abstract. Fast

ADO

Built on top of OLEDB to allow access from other Languages

ADO.NET

.NET Data api. Based on XML

Homework

• Read Intro and Chapter 1 'Data Modeling Past and Present' in Beginning Database Design (BDD)

• Read Intro and Chapter 1 Introduction to ASP.NET 2.0 with ADO.NET' in Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 Databases (BAD)

• Install Visual Studio Pro 2005
  • PC Requirements Windows XP sp2 or Vista
  • OS X requirements
    • Microsoft Virtual PC (in the msdnaa library)
    • Windows XP sp2 (in the msdnaa library)