For developers working with SQL Server, few performance tuning techniques are as essential--or as frequently misunderstood--as indexing. Done right, indexing can drastically improve application ...

Microsoft SQL Server is a database management system that is mainly used store and retrieve requested data across a network. It’s purpose more closely aligns with software developers and not so much ...

Sometimes, you may be unable to perform a sync on the server. Maybe you’re trying to sync a resource that doesn’t exist, or maybe you’ve got too much data and ...

Ahead of Microsoft Build (and a possible SQL Server announcement), let's break down what we know and speculate about what we don't. One topic that has come up in several conversations with customers ...

We have a high-load service which we want to run robustly when SQL server becomes (temporarily) unavailable. To achieve this, we set Connection Timeout (and Command Timeout as well, but that is not ...

Current code sets port as a keyword argument in connection string. "DRIVER=ODBC Driver 17 for SQL ...

Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. Today, we announced the general availability of SQL Server 2022, the most Azure-enabled release of SQL Server yet, with continued innovation across performance ...