Use custom-built .NET Framework 4.0 classes to connect an ASP.NET Web application to a SQL Server 2012 database.

I use a GUI front end to an SQL server database to do my job, and the program that is used to access the database is very old, made by Sybase, and is dated 1997. Sybase Adaptive Server Anywhere 6. ...

Microsoft is claiming performance gains when using in-memory OLTP in SQL Server 2014 of about 10 times to 30 times for "new and existing SQL Server apps," according to a datasheet (PDF).

Symantec Corp. released an upgrade to its application performance-management platform in August, adding several features targeted at optimizing Microsoft .NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005 in ...

SQL Server 2008 has provided another dramatic improvement to its instrumentation with Extended Events (also known as XEvents) that promises to offer even greater opportunities to tune, trace and ...

Microsoft is claiming performance gains when using in-memory OLTP in SQL Server 2014 of about 10 times to 30 times for "new and existing SQL Server apps," according to a datasheet (PDF). The in ...

Microsoft's recently released SQL Server 2017 is off to a strong start, and the company looks to keep the momentum going with new tools and blistering performance.

Microsoft is claiming performance gains when using in-memory OLTP in SQL Server 2014 of about 10 times to 30 times for "new and existing SQL Server apps," according to a datasheet (PDF). The in-memory ...

Prior to SQL Server 2016, currently in CTP, your main method for encrypting a SQL Server application was to use a feature called Transparent Data Encryption. TDE provides strong encryption, but with ...

Collier County Public Schools in Florida has replaced its traditional disk-based storage area network (SAN) equipment with flash memory arrays that speed up its SQL Server applications while reducing ...