Best Practices for ORM

Although everyone puts their complete effort to develop the best software, sometimes bad things happen. But to be on safer side we can take some precautionary measures. Well, today I want to share some of the best practices which needs to be followed while dealing with any ORMs (Object Relational Models). Most of these are common among many of the relational databases.

1. Exception handling: One should handle only those exceptions which need to be handled, and let all others pass through. For example, if you want to handle a connection issue you should do this by catching the specific exceptions, but don't use a catch all on Exceptions with the clause "just in case" because it may lead to high performance issues.
2. USING: As many of us know, that USING automatically handles dispose functionality. But this statement doesn’t work all the time, especially in the case of database connections. If you want to try it out, then run some overnight processes using windows services. Although USING handles it most of the time it is always a good practice to close database handles/connections manually.
3. Prefer compiled LINQ queries: Compiling a query once and executing it several times can lead to high performance gains. Such queries are useful, especially when the same query needs to be accomplished numerous times for innumerable parameters. The syntax for that is: MORE...