Credit card information in your business's database is much more secure if you encrypt it. If you store this information as plain text, unscrupulous users can easily steal the data either through ...

Microsoft has just added support for query hints to Azure SQL Database, giving database administrators a powerful tool to manage the performance of ISV application code. Here's how it works.

Some of the primary new functionalities that come with this add-in include the ability to create maps from spatial and non-spatial data stored in SQL Server 2008, customize the display of map data by ...