SQL basics I: Data queries You may not be responsible for building and maintaining a database, but somewhere down the line you’ll be required to work with one. Written by Shelley Doll ...

The VS 2005 and SQL Server 2005 Express combination offers many new features and tools to help you quickly build "bread-and-butter" database applications. Jay Schmelzer shows you how to install and ...

As promised in part one, I developed a Visual Basic program to generate a SQL script that clears all the data from a SQL Server database (See Code Download for full source code and executable). The ...

Assuring optimal performance of database applications starts with coding properly formulated SQL. Poorly written SQL and application code is the cause of most performance problems. As much as 75% of ...

SQL Basics I: Data Queries—covers database terminology and the four basic query types. SQL Basics: SELECT statement options —covers the SELECT statement in detail and explains aggregate functions.

Microsoft rolled out another round of prerelease versions of Visual Studio 2005, .Net Framework 2.0 and SQL Server 2005 as it strives to hit its revised ship dates during the second half of the year.