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Microsoft updated its free MSSQL extension for Visual Studio Code with new Fabric connectivity and provisioning features in public preview, alongside GitHub Copilot slash commands and multiple ...

description Learn how to get data from a SQL Server database and display it in a Windows Presentation Foundation DataGrid control by using this walkthrough. In this walkthrough, you retrieve data from ...

Introduction: In the realm of database management, efficient handling of large volumes of data is paramount. Whether you're working with SQL Server or Oracle, the ability to insert bulk data swiftly ...

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 ...

Take advantage of stored procedures, query pagination, query caching, and other advanced Dapper feature to simplify data access and ensure high performance. The Dapper ORM (object-relational mapper) ...

Azure SQL Database is an always-up-to-date, fully managed relational database service built for the cloud. You can easily build applications with Azure SQL Database and continue to use the tools, ...

Another week and another useful dbatools snippet for you today. Last week at work I was given a folder of 1,500 scripts – each containing a create table statement. Can you imagine having to open each ...

In this post I talk about SQL Server Agent jobs when implementing AlwaysOn Availability Groups. AlwaysOn Availability Groups synchronizes the databases that are part of an Availability Group but any ...

Take advantage of the DbContext in Entity Framework Core to connect to a database and perform CRUD operations using CLR objects Microsoft’s Entity Framework is an open-source object-relational mapper, ...