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title: "The Effects of Caching | Microsoft Docs"
author: rick-anderson
description: "Nearly every Web application today needs to access data from a database, but this common operation can have a real impact on the overall performance of the a..."
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ms.date: 03/26/2007
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The Effects of Caching
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by Eric Lee

Nearly every Web application today needs to access data from a database, but this common operation can have a real impact on the overall performance of the application. This video illustrates how Visual Studio Team System can help you identify whether your application is making redundant calls to the database, and then demonstrates how you can employ ASP.NET 2.0 DataSource caching functionality to eliminate the redundant calls.

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