Unlike the XML support in SQL Server, JSON support does not include a JSON data type -- you just store JSON objects in a character column (probably defined as VarChar (max)). However, even without a ...

Q&A Get Started Using .NET Aspire with SQL Server & Azure SQL Database By David Ramel 01/23/2025 Microsoft unveiled .NET Aspire at the Build 2024 developer conference, describing it as an opinionated, ...

What are the advantages of using Access as the front end to a SQL Server database? For starters, it's likely that your client's users will be more familiar with it, and it's relatively easy to put ...

Using Extended Events Extended Events is a tracing feature built into the SQL Server database engine, starting with SQL Server 2008.

The new file formats, called Microsoft Office Open XML Formats, will become the defaults for the “Office 12” versions of Microsoft Office Word, Excel® and PowerPoint®, which are expected to be ...