This post was authored by Tara Raj and Vinson Yu, Program Managers – SQL Server Team We are excited to announce the public preview availability of two new command line tools for SQL Server: The ...

A NodeJS-based SQL command line interface which is just what you need when you don't want to install an SQL client locally. This package lets you connect to any SQL server* and execute queries. Query ...

When trying to connect to SQL Server running in a Docker container in WSL I am unable to connect using localhost as the server name. I can, however, connect using 127.0.0.1 or ::1. The application is ...

This post was authored by Meet Bhagdev, Program Manager, Microsoft We are excited to announce the availability of the preview for SQL Server Command Line Tools (sqlcmd and bcp) on Mac OS. The sqlcmd ...

SQL Server 2005's Management Studio offers lots of new functionality, but you can't always use a GUI. Sometimes you need to run a script from the command line, especially for an upgrade or install ...

By Madhukar Moogala With the advent of the modern .NET platform, we've received queries from customers about loading SQL data client libraries onto the AutoCAD runtime. This post aims to address those ...