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The .NET 4 version of the Entity Framework (EF) brought several major improvements over the first version of the ORM; these features have since been extended further through the soon to be released add on EF Features CTP 5. Note for the rest of this post, when I refer to EF, I mean EF4 with the CTP 5 installed too. The new features in EF provide ...

Introduction The data access wars are over; long live the ORM wars. The new battles are fought with even more fanatical zealous behaviour than in previous conflicts. Rather than just debating the pros and cons of how best to execute SQL and wire it into our objects, there is now a whole new dimension to developer’s polarized opinions; what is the ...

With direct access to relational databases being marginalised we need to question the next evolution of ORMs.  Now our architectures have to be more considerate of other ways accessing data as relational models hide behind services, sit on the cloud or are even replaced with non-relational storage. I have been involved in, and a spectator ...

Simon Evans some time ago questioned if given the parametric nature of queries generated by ORMs, stored procedures still have a place in developers toolbox? At the end of the day why bother if ORMs seem these days seem to do everything for free? It looks to me that statement that ''stored procedures are dead'' (although Simon has never said that) ...

Following on from this post both John and Julian posted interesting comments. I'd like to address John's comments in this post as I think he poses some very good points that certainly crossed my mind as I started looking at RoR. In my day to day life as a .Net is I've found with .Net development is that there is generally 5 different ...