LINQ to SQL continues to be a top contender in the .NET object/relational mapping tool market despite Microsoft's promotion of the Entity Framework as one of the "Pillars of SQL Server 2008: Dynamic ...

The Java Persistence API was introduced as part of the Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) 3.0 specification in Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 5 (Java EE). The Java Persistence API draws on ideas from ...

SQL Server's OpenJson function will let you dismantle JSON structures into relational tables, including tables with foreign/primary key relationships. As I noted in an earlier column, JSON is great ...