Creating robust, highly available, highly scalable database applications is absolutely critical in today"s web-based economy. Integrating various non-Microsoft database servers with Microsoft tools and technologies has not always proven to be an easy task. The new-paradigm of .NET development further complicates the issue, but also provides a powerful set of tools and technologies to build these mission-critical systems. With Building Highly Scalable database Applications with .NET, readers will be able to: * Integrate .NET-based solutions with Oracle and DB2 and MySQL * Harness the power of Microsoft"s ADO.Net for high performance computing * Build efficient components for maximum scalability * Integrate with existing COM-based applications * Maximize transaction speed and message queue efficiency * Scale applications to a much higher level, resulting in an increase in the number of users or transactions