Atul Thakor
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SQLBits 2011
LINQ for DBAs and SQL Developers
An introduction to LINQ covering what it is, why people choose to use it, and how you can help your developers when troubleshooting and performance tuning as you previously did through stored procedures.
With the increasing use of ORM's (Object Relational Mapping) and the introduction of StreamInsight I believe that it would be useful to have a basic understanding of LINQ. LINQ is an integrated language (within .NET) which allows you to query XML, Database’s and Objects in a similar way to T-SQL. Using LINQPad I will show you how similar the 2 languages are and how easy it is for you to write your own queries.