I’m presenting again! Woohoo!
On July 23rd, I will be presenting at the Central Ohio .NET Developer’s Group. The fun starts at 6:00 PM. I strongly suggest you bring large piles of money to throw at me.
What will I be speaking about, you might ask? (You’re probably not asking yourself this question because you already know I’m going to tell you.)
From Tables to Objects: Making Your Database Work With You
Time & Location
July 23rd at 6:00 PM, at Central Ohio .NET Developers Group located at the Microsoft building on Polaris Parkway in Columbus, OH
Abstract
A database is far more than a persistent object store for your application; it is capable of data validation en masse, aggregations, and creating different projections of data. By working with your database, rather than against it, it is possible to leverage all of the capabilities of a relational database to provide rich, high performance interaction with your application through an ORM. This presentation will discuss the finer points of building a full-featured data access layer using an ORM and the features of a relational database.
Goals
- Teach attendees about database features that make development easier – including views, sparsely populated tables, and user-defined functions and types.
- Empower the audience to solve object relational impedance mismatch using data modeling techniques and database features.
- Demonstrate how to integrate the database and object oriented software using a custom designed data access layer.


[...] it located at Microsoft building on Polaris Parkway in Columbus, Ohio. My presentation is titled From Tables to Objects: Making Your Database Work With You – it’s all about using database features to enhance the quality of your ORM. There is no [...]