Microsoft announced a new data access driver for SQL Server that should be the path forward for data developers in the era of .NET Core. As the traditional, Windows-only .NET Framework is basically ...

Microsoft's SQL Server toolbox is a complicated ecosystem, and differentiating one tool from another is a challenge. Vicky Harp, lead program manager of the SQL Server tools team, clarifies ...

Microsoft is enabling its free SQL CE (SQL Server Compact Edition) database to work within ASP.Net Web applications, thus providing a lightweight database option for ASP.Net Web development, a ...

Q&A. Get Started Using .NET Aspire with SQL Server & Azure SQL Database. By David Ramel; 01/23/2025; Microsoft unveiled .NET Aspire at the Build 2024 developer conference, describing it as an ...

SQL Server Developer edition is a Microsoft product licensed for development and testing in a non-production environment, complete with all of SQL Server’s features. ... you can access data stored in ...

In April of this year, SQL Server 2005 also will lose extended support. The loss of extended support means that Microsoft will stop issuing security patches for these products, which represents a ...

Microsoft is readying SQL Server on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and is making .NET Core 1.0 and ASP.NET Core 1.0 generally available today, as promised.

The .NET execution engine protects SQL Server's internal buffers from executing code, and extensive enhancements to the hosting control APIs in the execution engine prohibit exceptional ...

If you’re building a Microsoft .NET network and you have an Oracle database, you should migrate it to SQL Server. It is not a question of which is better but of which one is the right tool for you.