I have some good news for you. The US Department of Homeland Security offers free IT (and other) security services to entities in the USA that fall under critical infrastructure....

I wrote a related post about this years ago. It all still holds true IMHO: How to Fail at ORM

TLDR: I've seen the good and bad with...

There is plenty of proof in the wild that ORMs can scale. Take stackoverflow.com for example. They handle over 1 million requests a day and they use Linq2Sql. ORM is...

Between the "aggressive GET" mentality of some developers and the single query methods of those two products, I've spent a good amount of time cleaning up huge performance problems generated...

There is an architectural...

No offense taken. This is a fun topic to discuss.

What I'd love to see is being able to define relationships between object collections on the ORM, in an equivalent way...

A set of objects (corresponding to a database table) is generally loaded with a single SELECT statement, but if related objects are wanted, child objects are generally loaded with one...

Here is a good description of N + 1:

http://nhprof.com/Learn/Alert?name=SelectNPlusOne

EDIT: I will add that Select N + 1 is not a problem that directly stems from using an ORM framework. It...

I can see the argument against table level access whether the danger is real or perceived (I think it varies from shop-to-shop). That being the case, it may be helpful...

Thanks for the reply. I did set the report execution to never timeout as opposed to the default 1800. I did this both on the global server setting and on...