You need data analytics to gain critical business intelligence and a competitive edge. And you're probably consolidating your Oracle® data on SQL Server® instances for that purpose. But quality data ...

Let’s start by admitting that the title of this article is a tease. It’s a valid question and one that thinking people ask all the time. But in truth it’s not the first question you should be asking.

In SQL Server, the database can be stored in different files and filegroups. If your database is small (100 MB or less), you do not need to worry too much about files and filegroups. But if you have a ...

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 ...

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 importance of automating processes can’t be overestimated. Most things start out as a manual procedure until you work out exactly how things should happen, but many times they stay that way ...