Windows 7 includes an ODBC manager that lets you connect from your desktop to a SQL server. You create a data source name (DSN) to save database setup information, so you can open a connection to the ...

SQL has dominated data querying for decades. Newer query languages offer more elegance, simplicity, and flexibility for modern use cases. For the last three decades, databases and Structured Query ...

A WPF ListBox lets you display data created and stored in a SQL table. You must query the SQL database, and you use the retrieved data set to populate the ListBox items. The SQL table can contain one ...

Every day, businesses depend on data to operate. Customer orders, quotes for new business, conversations around products, campaigns for marketing—pretty much every business process today is based on ...

At the Ignite conference today, Microsoft made a series of announcements about Azure databases. It announced a brand-new Azure database called HorizonDB, which is a fully managed PostgreSQL database ...

Even after 50 years, Structured Query Language, or SQL, remains the native tongue for those who speak data. It’s had impressive staying power since it was first coined the Structured Query English ...

SQL is neither the fastest nor the most elegant way to talk to databases, but it is the best way we have. Here’s why Today, Structured Query Language is the standard means of manipulating and querying ...