Connecting to SQL Server with the Dapper framework is one of the simplest and fastest ways to work with databases in .NET. Dapper is a lightweight ORM (Object-Relational Mapper) created by Stack ...

Delivering on performance promises made during its November launch, Microsoft has formally released Native Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) support for Windows Server 2025. This architectural ...

Microsoft complements its relational database engine, SQL Server, with several add-on services that manage different aspects of enterprise business intelligence and information processing such as data ...

SQL Server Management Studio or SSMS allows you to connect to the SQL server and execute queries. In this tutorial, we will see how you can install and configure SQL Server Management Studio in ...

It turns out i was allocated into a back-end Microsoft stack project at the company i work with, that one includes SQL Server db with it. That's also a great oportunity to study its new features since ...

In my recent article I've reported about a nice free alternative to manage SQL databases, which, from the same UI can manage also MySQL databases. I thought that it might be a good idea to actually ...

Message: Cannot connect to SQL Database: '%server;', Database: '%database;', User: '%user;'. Check the linked service configuration is correct, and make sure the SQL Database firewall allows the ...

This project contains a Visual Studio Load Test 2015 solution to execute synthetic load for SQL Server Reporting Services 2016, SQL Server Reporting Services 2017 and Power BI Report Server. It uses ...

Microsoft continues to make positive strides in the world of open source. The company once considered open source software to be an anathema, but now it’s common for Microsoft to pull software ...

SQL is neither the fastest nor the most elegant way to talk to databases, but it is the best way we have. Here’s why Today, Structured Query Language is the standard means of manipulating and querying ...

We are excited to announce the general availability of SQL Server 2017 and Machine Learning Services. You can start using Python-based in-database Machine Learning Services for production usage now.