In a relational database approach, regardless of whether one is considering persisted data or transitory query results, almost everything is viewed as a logical table. Associations between these ...

This month I'm writing about an issue I've found myself helping people with frequently of late: problems with related classes defined in Code First and then, in most cases, used in the ...

A foreign key is a relationship between two entities. Generally speaking, inter-entity relationships are one-to-many, e.g., an ORDER has many ORDER LINEs, and so forth. Even a case that may start out ...

Database normalization is the cornerstone of database theory. Once a database is normalized, relationships between the data in multiple tables must be established. A hefty part of designing a ...