The ORM Smackdown! - Show #240
Ayende Vs. Ted Neward - DOT NET ROCKS!Ted Neward and Oren Eini agreed to discuss Object Relational Mapping practices at DevTeach in Montreal, Quebec May 16, 2007. This is a slightly longer show than usual, but we think you’ll agree it was worth it.

Ted Neward is an independent consultant specializing in high-scale enterprise systems, working with clients ranging in size from Fortune 500 corporations to small 10-person shops. He is an authority in Java and .NET technologies, particularly in the areas of Java/.NET integration (both in-process and via integration tools like Web services), back-end enterprise software systems, and virtual machine/execution engine plumbing.

Oren Eini is a .NET developer living in Israel and currently working for We! He is heavily involved in the nHibernate project among other things. You can read his blog at

Some of the topics covered:

  • Using Logic in sprocs
  • sprocs vs. dynamic SQL
  • object databases
  • modeling the database first or the object model first ?
  • more