SQL Server 2008 R2 gave us data-tier applications ("DACs") and yet another Visual Studio project type All these database project types can get pretty confusing. And the funny part is that you're still ...

A new SQL Server 2025 feature lets organizations run vector-based semantic searches on their own data, connecting to local or cloud-hosted AI models without relying on massive general-purpose LLMs.

How to import or export diagrams with SQL Server? Information about the diagrams is stored in the dtproperties table. Basically to import or export a diagram, you simply need to import or export the ...

Online analytical processing (OLAP) cube example Hybrid Distributed Data example As you will see in this chapter, companies use SQL Server for many types of applications and on most tiers now.

The extension model introduced with Visual Studio Code and subsequently tracked by the Visual Studio IDE is proving so popular it has been applied to SQL Operations Studio, Microsoft's cross-platform, ...

Data modeling tools create a simple, easy-to-understand diagram of data flow. Explore the best software now.

SQL Server 2022 customers will see benefits in the areas of data integration, analytics, governance, and high availability thanks to the database’s enhanced connectivity to the Azure cloud, Microsoft ...

In this second delve into data cleanliness (read the first, How clean is your data?, here), we’ll test-drive the data profiling tool provided with Microsoft SQL Server.

We have an ancient AS/400 730 system that still houses some old budget/financial data. We'd like to decommission this box, and migrate the data to a SQL server. The data won't be modified or ...