Use custom-built .NET Framework 4.0 classes to connect an ASP.NET Web application to a SQL Server 2012 database. In my recent article, I showed how to connect .NET 4.0 C# and Visual Basic applications ...

Technology Toolbox: VB.NET, C#, SQL Server "Yukon" All versions of SQL Server prior to SQL Server "Yukon" provide two ways to write procedural code that executes inside the database. The usual way is ...

Last month we looked at the upcoming MS SQL Server 2005 Beta 2. In this version, the programmability of SQL Server is not anymore restricted only to SQL statements. You can now create solutions in SQL ...

Microsoft Corp. is preparing a tool for simultaneous release with Visual Studio .NET that will tighten the relationship between Microsoft's .NET Web services vision and its existing SQL Server 2000 ...

I'll soon be developing an application that will be controlled access, but will be visible to the whole Internet. All of the web apps I've developed before have been for internal networks, so I've ...

Microsoft has a guide on naming conventions for C#, etc. Is there something similar for SQL Server?<BR><BR>i.e. names for tables, columns, stored procedures, stored procedure variables, ...