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 ...

The Microsoft OLE DB Provider is an SQL tool that enables developers to write code that provides an ... is not installed by default when SQL Server is installed. Microsoft offers the tool as ...

SQL Server "Yukon" All versions of SQL Server prior to SQL Server "Yukon" provide two ways to write procedural code that executes inside the database. The usual way is to use Transact SQL (T-SQL ...

SQL Server 2016 and Azure SQL Database both give you tables that automatically keep track of the history of your data. Here's how to retrieve that historical data. In an earlier column, I showed how ...