This month’s collection of fixes from Microsoft includes 86 patches — but at least there were no zero-day bugs. Microsoft released 86 patches this week with updates for Office, Windows, and SQL Server ...

A step-by-step guide to deploying, configuring, and testing a multi-AZ, multi-region SQL Server FCI in the Azure cloud, complete with a PowerShell script that handles the networking configuration.

Optimizing the performance of your .NET applications requires efficient resource management. Memory allocations and deallocations must be performed optimally in performance-critical applications. One ...

When working with dates and times in SQL Server, it’s common for formatting discrepancies to cause issues during query execution. To prevent errors, it’s crucial to ensure that date strings are ...

Dynamic SQL lets you create a query string based off of user input. SQL Server allows you to create dynamic SQL statements. The statements use a SQL string varchar data type, then you execute the ...

I want to use ef core 6 ( along with .Net 6 ) to connect to a sql server instance with a named instance e.g. server\myinstance . shows how to connect to a local db. When I want to use connection ...

Microsoft only just officially released SQL Server 2019 at its Ignite conference in Orlando, Fla., but it announced some key changes to licensing a little bit earlier. Don't worry -- they're all ...

Fixed a crash in SQL Server Management Studio while trying to display securables on “Replication Filter” objects. Query result Fixed an issue introduced in SQL Server Management Studio 18.3.1, where ...

Here's how to make your data more useful -- or even just more presentable -- using the Join and Split operators and the Split method. With PowerShell, there are many ways to work with data. In this ...