As the amount of data we have expands, so do the challenges in protecting and managing it. The 2023 Professional Microsoft SQL Database Development Bundle explores how to build, maintain, protect, and ...

Dynamic SQL lets you create a query string based off of user input. SQL Server allows you to create dynamic SQL statements. The statements use a SQL string varchar data type, then you execute the ...

Get ready to scale out SQL Azure databases beyond today's 50GB limit with the Transact-SQL and ADO.NET elastic sharding features, which are coming in the 2011 SQL Azure Federation Community Technology ...

SQL development is evolving fast, and Microsoft.Build.Sql is leading the charge. This next-generation SDK brings flexible project structures, better source control integration, automated build-time ...

I don't know if this is the right place for this question or not but I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction. I have a project in mind that requires a database and I would like to begin ...

Today’s README file explains how to create connection strings to SQL Server databases using Visual Studio’s built-in tools. To provide an example using real source, I created a simple Winforms ...

If you are part of a business, sooner or later you want to be able to collaborate on a database with a colleague or customer. In the past, the easiest way to share a small database was to create a ...

The SQL query language was designed to provide programmers with a way to create, maintain and modify databases in a structured way. Using SQL, the programmer can add and remove items from databases as ...

Microsoft made a series of database announcements at the Ignite conference, including the general availability of SQL Server ...