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Microsoft announced a new data access driver for SQL Server that should be the path forward for data developers in the era of .NET Core. As the traditional, Windows-only .NET Framework is basically ...

I'm new at this whole DBA thing, so maybe this is totally standard practice.<BR><BR>But we have a software vendor that wants remote access to our SQL server at an admin level to setup and install ...

If you are interested in the fastest performance, don't use Access as a front-end to a SQL Server database. While Access is relatively easy to learn and fast to develop in, its performance is poor ...

Ok, I'm at a client site where they want to make a program database independent. This is a rewrite of an existing program that used an Access database only. I asked the person in charge how they were ...

On Thursday, Google announced a whole series of database and data analytics improvements to its cloud data architecture. In this article, we'll focus on the substantial improvements to Spanner and ...

SQL Server has a long list of roles for server, database, and applications that outline things like permissions, data selection and modification, and disk management. Examine how roles play a part in ...

Damian Black, SQLstream CEO, stopped by to introduce his company, discuss a few industry trends, and introduce the company's s-Server 3.0. Here's a summary of our interesting conversation: SQLstream ...