Working on deploying an application from my development box to a client. On the client when I run my exe, I get the error "The 'SQLNCLI10' Provider is not registered on the local machine. I'm deve...

I have been told that SQL Native Client is supposed to be faster than the OLEDB drivers. So I put together a utility to do a load-test between the two - and am getting mixed results. Sometimes one ...

I'm trying to select a column from a single table (no joins) and I need the count of the number of rows, ideally before I begin retrieving the rows. I have come to two approaches that provide the i...