1. LiNQ
SQL Saturday
David Fekke

2. LiNQ Language Integrated Query

3. .NET 3.5 Framework

4. SQL vs. LiNQ

5. Abstraction

6. SQL Server 2005
Oracle

7. MySQL
PostgreSQL
Other RDBMS supported by Open Source

8. IQueriable Interface

9. Query Objects
Query XML
Query Databases

10. var myQuery = from p in db.people
where p.firstname == “David”
select p

11. LiNQ makes use .NET 3.5 language features

12. C# 3.0 VB .NET 9.0

13. Lamda Expressions Anonymous Types Dynamic Types

14. Pros and Cons Visual Studio Generates Object code
No reason to create separate queries for each RDBMS
Auto parametrize variables
Use Stored Procedures
No hinting
careful about in memory quering
SQL Statements are auto-generated with the exception of Stored Procs