So many programming languages have come and gone, but SQL remains. And it has a bright future still.

TableAdapters provide communication between your application and a database. They connect to the database, run queries or stored procedures, and either return a new data table or fill an existing ...

In Visual Studio, you can create applications that connect to data in virtually any database product or service, in any format, anywhere—on a local machine, on a local area network, or in a public, ...

Relational (SQL) databases store data in tables with strictly-defined relationships between tables. Non-relational (NoSQL) databases are more flexible and allow for less organized and less ...

Oracle’s change in strategy to release a developer-first version of its new database is linked to the company’s plans to defend its market dominance and look at innovative ways to acquire new ...

We show you how to fix Object reference not set to an instance of an object error prompt which you may see in Microsoft Visual Studio.

I know you can install Windows 11 for ARM in Parallels and then run Visual Studio and SQL Server on top of that (with ARM-x64 emulation, I guess?), but IIS support was missing last I checked.

The January 2019 release of Azure Data Studio also gets SQL Server Profiler improvements and a host of other updates for users.

SQL Server 2016 and Azure SQL Database both give you tables that automatically keep track of changes to your data. Here's how to both create those tables and alter existing tables so they track the ...

Peter shows how a Visual Studio database project can make you more productive when making changes to your database. But a database project also gives you a variety of tools to let you keep track of ...