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  Relational Database Persistence with NHibernate, Part 2

  Last updated: Friday, December 5, 2025

  Published in: CODE Magazine: 2009 - July/August

  Chad Myers explains how to persist object relationships with NHibernate, focusing on one-to-many collection mapping (bag/set/list/etc.), bi-directional associations, lazy loading, cascading options, and performance optimizations (batching, ordering, filtering); he shows practical mapping and code patterns, warns about lazy-loading pitfalls, and points to advanced topics and Fluent NHibernate for smoother mappings.

  • Data
  • NHibernate
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  Relational Database Persistence with NHibernate, Part 1

  Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022

  Published in: CODE Magazine: 2009 - May/June

  Take advantage of the best relational databases and object-oriented design have to offer without compromising either.Using an object/relational mapping framework like NHibernate, you can significantly reduce the amount of code you write (and therefore potential bugs) for performing standard operations against your database and save the heavy ADO.NET coding for the complicated scenarios.

  • .NET 3.5
  • NHibernate
  • ORM
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  Speed Up Project Delivery with Repeatability

  Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022

  Published in: CODE Magazine: 2008 - November/December

  Automate high-friction, unpredictable tasks in your environment to regain sanity and achieve a rapid, sustainable pace.Every environment has them: The dreaded manual tasks that drain productivity from the team and adds instability to the processes. We usually only dedicate half our brain power and never enough time to deal with them, which only compounds the problem. What if you could easily automate out the most painful tasks and gain a huge boost in productivity and speed of delivery?

  • Build and Deploy
  • Project Management
  • Source Control
  • Testing and Quality Control
  • Tips