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 ...

Windows 7 includes an ODBC manager that lets you connect from your desktop to a SQL server. You create a data source name (DSN) to save database setup information, so you can open a connection to the ...

Take advantage of connection resiliency in EF Core to detect errors and retry commands and enable your ASP.NET Core application to overcome transient faults. A high-quality application must be stable, ...

Take advantage of the open source library Serilog to log your ASP.NET Core application’s data to SQL Server or another database target. Logging is an essential feature for any application, as it is ...

PolyBase, a data virtualization feature for SQL Server, allows users to seamlessly query data from various external sources directly using T-SQL (Transact-SQL) without the need for separate client ...