From query optimization to AI integration, SQL skills are adapting to meet the needs of modern analytics and engineering. Techniques like indexing, joins, and AI-driven insights improve performance ...

Use custom-built .NET Framework 4.0 classes to connect an ASP.NET Web application to a SQL Server 2012 database. In my recent article, I showed how to connect .NET 4.0 C# and Visual Basic applications ...

Technology Toolbox: VB.NET, C#, SQL Server "Yukon" All versions of SQL Server prior to SQL Server "Yukon" provide two ways to write procedural code that executes inside the database. The usual way is ...

Connecting Visual Basic to SQL databases gives your applications the ability to store, retrieve, and update information dynamically. By setting up the right environment, using ADO.NET for database ...

The SQL server is on a shared hosting provider, so I suspect I would not be able to attach a profiler to the sql server database (admin rights needed?). I do not have debug access to the sql server ...

Take advantage of the open source library Serilog to log your ASP.NET Core application’s data to SQL Server or another database target. Logging is an essential feature for any application, as it is ...

Microsoft officials are showcasing some of the new fruits of its partnership with Red Hat at this week's Red Hat Summit in San Francisco. On Thursday, Microsoft execs will demonstrate SQL Server on ...

Defeat hackers by running the Microsoft Web Application Configuration Analyzer with the same security checks that Microsoft uses on its own servers Microsoft has just released version 2.0 of its Web ...

Microsoft Corp. is preparing a tool for simultaneous release with Visual Studio .NET that will tighten the relationship between Microsoft's .NET Web services vision and its existing SQL Server 2000 ...