“With a lot of programs today, you're not only saying what you want the program to do, you are saying in painful detail how you want it done. The way we get to take advantage of all of the progress in CPUs and memory is offloading some of that 'how to' to the infrastructure.”
“You can query pretty much anything. LINQ works with any collection you have in the .Net Framework today. It's a single programming model for data where the things you know in this domain just magically apply for another domain.”
“My particular interest for the past couple of years has been to really think deeply about the big impedance mismatch we have between programming languages, C# in particular, and the database world, like SQL?or, for that matter, the XML world, like XQuery and those languages that exist.”
“Not only does this scenario require familiarity with several programming languages, but it also requires a mastery of the application programming interfaces that bridge the different domains, such as ADO.NET or Open DataBase Connectivity (ODBC).”
