Organizations are using generative AI to stay ahead of the competition, but the real advantage lies in harnessing the power of your own data securely and at scale. SQL Server 2025, now in public ...

Microsoft unveiled .NET Aspire at the Build 2024 developer conference, describing it as an opinionated, cloud-ready stack for building observable, production ready, distributed, cloud-native ...

Attempting to connect to an Azure SQL Database with the minimum TLS version set to 1.3 using .NET 8.0.6 and SqlClient 5.2.1 fails with "Reason: Login failed due to client TLS version being less than ...

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 queries and guide ...

PolyBase, a data virtualization feature for SQL Server, allows users to seamlessly query data from various external sources directly using T-SQL (Transact-SQL) without the need for separate client ...

MS Access is a popular desktop database application that allows users to store and manage large amounts of data. However, as data grows, users may find Access slowing down or becoming unwieldy. To ...

I want to use ef core 6 ( along with .Net 6 ) to connect to a sql server instance with a named instance e.g. server\myinstance . shows how to connect to a local db. When I want to use connection ...

Microsoft has released a temporary fix for a known issue impacting Windows apps using ODBC database connections after installing the November 2022 Patch Tuesday updates. As the company revealed in ...

Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. We are excited to announce general availability of the link feature for Managed Instance for SQL Server 2022–the most Azure-enabled release of SQL Server yet.

Both Excel and SQL databases have their pros and cons. But most people are more familiar with Excel than a database. For this reason, you might want to turn your Excel into a sort of SQL database ...