Apress.Beginning.VB.2008.Databases.From.Novice.to.Professional.Apr.2008.

As most of the real-world applications interact with the data stored in relational databases, so every VB programmer needs to know how to access data. This book specifically covers how to interact with SQL Server 2005 databases using VB 2008. This book also covers LINQ and ADO.NET 3.5, the most exciting features of .NET Framework 3.5. The chapters that focus on the database concepts will help you understand the database concepts as if you’d learned them from a pure database concepts book. I have also covered many new features of T-SQL that SQL Server 2005 has brought in.