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Evaluating Performance of LDAP Queries
LDAP search performance sometimes feels like more art than science.  The biggest reason for that is initially there doesn’t appear to be  tools available to evaluate your query and report on efficiency.
STATS Control
LDAP has what is called the STATS control.  When the STATS control [...]

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Advanced Binding Options
We’re going to take a little detour from search performance to talk about high performance binding to the directory.  The first thing a search does is bind to the directory.  And presumably you’ll bind to the objects that your search returns.  So even the most efficient [...]

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Writing Efficient LDAP Filters
Writing efficient LDAP filters sometimes feels like more art than science.  Mostly that’s because the tools to make it a science are not always well known or understood.  We’ll tackle measuring the performance of your queries later in this series, but first let’s go over [...]

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At Silicon Valley Code Camp we got in a discussion about efficient LDAP queries. I thought it would best to write a few blog posts about performance considerations of searching when using System.DirectoryServices (including LDAP queries). I’m using the MSDN article Creating More Efficient Microsoft Active Directory-Enabled Applications [...]