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 ...

Excel spreadsheets are fantastic bits of kit, but databases are not. Rather than making the full jump to replacing Excel with a database system, there is a halfway house you can consider.

FOCA needs a SQL database to run. In this tutorial we will learn how to set up a SQL Server Express instance, step by step. First, get the latest version of SQL Server Express from the Microsoft ...

Quickstart: Use SSMS to connect to and query Azure SQL Database or Azure SQL Managed Instance [!INCLUDE appliesto-sqldb-sqlmi] In this quickstart, you'll learn how to use SQL Server Management Studio ...

In this Microsoft SQL Server and JDBC tutorial, you'll learn how to connect to a Microsoft SQL Server in Java using JDBC. The steps are relatively straightforward: Each database is different, so ...

With read-only access to secondary databases, SQL Server 2012/2014 can dramatically increase database I/O capacity on the back end. Grouping databases together into an AG also allows companies to ...