As a DBA, you probably hear from users whenever they experience sluggish application performance. Users expect you to twist some knobs and make the application fly. But many application performance problems aren't caused by the configuration of the database server, OS, hardware, or network, or even by gremlins in the wiring. Most often, the application causes poor performance. In particular, the way in which applications talk to the database through ADO can cause slow performance.

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