The troublesome "Active Record" pattern
Critique of the Active Record pattern, explaining its inefficiencies in data access and performance issues in applications and APIs.
Critique of the Active Record pattern, explaining its inefficiencies in data access and performance issues in applications and APIs.
Discusses the continued relevance of the Data Access Object (DAO) pattern in modern software development, even when using OR Mappers like JPA.
Explores two main approaches for data binding business objects in .NET: O/R mapping tools and typed DataSets.