13 August 2012

ExecuteReader,ExcuteNonQuery and ExecuteScaler

ExecuteReader
Use for accessing data. It provides a forward-only, read-only, connected record set.
ExecuteNonQuery
Use for data manipulation, such as Insert, Update, Delete.
ExecuteScalar
Use for retriving 1 row 1 col. value., i.e. Single value. eg: for retriving aggregate function. It is faster than other ways of retriving a single value from DB.

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