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Name Space: System.Collections.Generic When we look at the term "generic", unrelated to the programming world, it simply means something that is not tied to any sort of brand name. For example, if we purchase some generic dish soap, soap that has no brand name on it, we know that we are buying dish soap and expect it to help us clean our dishes, but we really don't know what exact brand (if any) will be inside the bottle itself. We can treat it as dish soap even though we don't really have any idea of its exact contents. Think of Generics in this manner. We can refer to a class, where we don't force it to be related to any specific Type, but we can still perform work with it in a Type-Safe manner. A perfect example of where we would need Generics is in dealing with collections of items (integers, strings, Orders etc.). We can create a generic collection than can handle any Type in a generic and Type-Safe manner. For example, we can have a single array class tha...

Multiple Active Result Sets - MARS In a nutshell, it is the ability to have more than one pending request under a given SQL Server connection. For most cases this will directly translate to the ability to have more than one default result set (firehose cursor) outstanding while other operations can execute within the same session. It is probably as important to delimit what MARS is not: Parallel execution: Though MARS enables more than one request to be submitted under the same connection, this does not imply that they will be executed in parallel inside the server. MARS will multiplex execution threads between outstanding requests in the connection, interleaving at well defined points. Cursor replacement: As described earlier, there are some scenarios where cursors represented a suitable workaround for a lack of MARS; it may be valid to migrate those scenarios to use MARS. However, this does not imply that all current usages of cursors should be moved to MARS. By default, all o...