In their defense, you could write that code much better with a slightly more nuanced understanding of the language. The platform as a whole is pretty good, and the 'dynamic' feature does help this simplify this case. But I don't know why they insist on making their example code so consistently crappy.

Wow, damn, so much Microsoft innovation... and it's MS SQL and MS language specific.

(YAWN) You could have written that code in most languages with most databases years ago!

What's next Microsoft?