Get ready to scale out SQL Azure databases beyond today's 50GB limit with the Transact-SQL and ADO.NET elastic sharding features, which are coming in the 2011 SQL Azure Federation Community Technology ...

There are various ways to interface with a database, including Access and HTML, but one approach takes advantage of legacy Microsoft ASP (with ADO/ADOX) to build a front end. This method, which I will ...

SQL development is evolving fast, and Microsoft.Build.Sql is leading the charge. This next-generation SDK brings flexible project structures, better source control integration, automated build-time ...

Microsoft made a series of database announcements at the Ignite conference, including the general availability of SQL Server ...

If you work with data — or want to — Microsoft SQL Server is a skill worth having in your back pocket. The 2025 Total Microsoft SQL Server Bundle gives you five courses and 17 hours of practical, real ...

Dynamic SQL lets you create a query string based off of user input. SQL Server allows you to create dynamic SQL statements. The statements use a SQL string varchar data type, then you execute the ...

Microsoft has released a free trial of its cloud-based relational database. The community technology preview (CTP) of SQL Azure Database was made available Tuesday, along with a preview of an SQL ...

Microsoft directly hosts a handful of big conferences every year, with the developer-oriented Build conference and infrastructure-oriented Ignite being to two that I pay the most attention to. The ...

Build 2022 marks the long-awaited public preview of Microsoft's next-generation database engine. Here are the top seven new SQL Server 2022 features to look out for. When Microsoft introduced SQL ...

From immutable ledgers in SQL Azure to in-memory cache in Cosmos DB, Microsoft is adding more features to its Azure data platform. If you’re building cloud-native applications you need a reliable, ...