Connected vs. Disconnected Architecture in ADO.NET
Two ways of talking to a database, and why the right answer depends entirely on what the data has to do.
Writing
Occasional notes on things I have had to think through carefully enough to write down. Short on purpose — a long article nobody finishes teaches less than a clear paragraph.
Writing is not the point of this site — the work is. But writing is how a position becomes checkable rather than merely claimed, so it will keep appearing here as there is something worth being precise about. Currently writing as Applied AI Platform Architect.