Hey there.... I been reading about LINQ and I like what I've read. However, I need to know it it would do the job as well as SQL 2008 in VS 2008 Standard Edition. Please understand that I intend to display a lot of stock prices online at the same time. I was told that a flat file would be a VERY bad idea since many visitors wouldn't be able to see the information at the same time. Then I was guided to SQL 2008. Yet now I'm wondering if LINQ would equally solve this problem as well as SQL 2008? May you have a blessed day as the Lord wills. JEP
Are all of the users going to be reading the data, and not writing to it? If so, LINQ would work well. Once you create an application that uses LINQ, it's wouldn't be difficult to change the database if you wanted. If you're going to have a lot of writes to the data, from many different users, you'll want to go with SQL server.
My goal is to read from this DB and display it online. I'm lead to believe that there could be many visitors to the website. So, from what you've stated, LINQ will do the job better than SQL Server 2008. Thank you. Is there a limit to SQL Server 2008? Gog Bless...