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 ...

As part of Visual Studio 2019, new installations of SQL Server Integration Services, SQL Server Analysis Services, and SQL Server Reporting Services can be installed. If you are using Visual Studio ...

Fresh on the heels of SQL Server 2014 being released to manufacturing, the SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) team yesterday announced support for the new version, along with numerous other enhancements..

Repeatedly, Redmond has tried to make the need to switch over to specialized tools, like SQL Server tools, obsolete. The success has been mixed at best, and yet Microsoft is trying again. When SQL ...

A limitation of the profiling tool is that source data must be stored within a SQL Server database. If you wish to profile data stored in flat files, for example, then you must first load that ...