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 ...

Microsoft.Data.SqlClient connection options control how the driver establishes, identifies, routes, retries, and pools a connection. Set them in a connection string or through matching ...

This article describes breaking changes between Microsoft ODBC Driver 18 for SQL Server and version 17. Most applications that upgrade from version 17 to version 18 are affected by a single change: ...

The sample data in SQL is provided by Microsoft's AdventureWorks training database, which can be provided both on your own SQL server and directly as an Azure SQL Database. Microsoft provides ...

Unfortunately, not every SQL database is always available when we expect it to be. When you're creating automation scripts to discover, add, update or remove records from a remote SQL database, you ...