You can use VB.NET or C# to write procedural code and create user-defined types and aggregates in SQL Server.

The SQL server is on a shared hosting provider, so I suspect I would not be able to attach a profiler to the sql server database (admin rights needed?).

Take advantage of the open source library Serilog to log your ASP.NET Core application’s data to SQL Server or another database target.

In our last article we looked at System.Data in .NET Core 3.0. Now we turn our attention to System.Data.SqlClient, which is the SQL Server driver.

Listing 1 shows a simple Action method using ADO.NET to submit a SQL statement to SQL Server 2016, retrieving a JSON result and returning it to the client that called the method.

Microsoft has released the first release candidate for SQL Server 2025, touting AI capabilities and experimental features ...

Windows hosting services can host your websites and apps on dedicated Microsoft technologies like ASP.NET or .NET. In fact, they can even run different products like Exchange or Microsoft SQL Server.

In November, Microsoft released version 18.4 for the SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), introducing some key features such as support for materialized view scripts in SQL Data Warehouse. It also ...