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..

SSDT is a database tool within the Visual Studio IDE that helps users develop, build, test and publish databases from a source-controlled project. The latest release of the tool is SQL Server ...

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 ...

SQL Server Data Tools has upgraded from Microsoft.Data.SQLClient 3.0 to 5.0. The new version has support for TDS 8.0 , support for specifying Server SPN and Failover Server SPN on the connection.

Microsoft releases SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005, the Siamese twins of its database and tools strategy, to manufacturing on Thursday. SQL Server, Visual Studio 2005 RTM Due Thursday ...

Microsoft revealed the official names Monday of the next major upgrades to its Visual Studio software development tools platform and its SQL Server database, which will be called, simply, Visual ...