Question

In my pages, the first thing I do when a page is being displayed is query a table called user preferences. I’m doing this for every page and I was wondering what are the options available to avoid repeating this query as the user jumps from page to page on my application.

Thanks.

Answer 1

You should either store the user preference in a Cookie or Session.

Some good reads for you:

http://wiki.asp.net/page.aspx/57/session/

and

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa289495(v=vs.71).aspx

If both cases, check if the value is not null. If it is not null, use the Cookie or Session value. If it is null, populate your Session / Cookie value with the result of your database call.

This way you will only make this DB call once.