To use the 64-bit version of the [!INCLUDE ssNoVersion] Import and Export Wizard, you have to install [!INCLUDE ssNoVersion]. SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) and SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) are ...

A 34-vote social media poll showed 44.1 percent support for adding more database tooling options to Visual Studio, with 41.2 percent opposed and 14.7 percent choosing "Either way." Several responses ...

Nearly every major product family needs immediate patching, from Windows to Office to Microsoft Edge, SQL Server, and even Microsoft Developer Tools. Windows admins are going to be busy this month, ...

Microsoft has released C# 14 and .NET 10, a long-term support version, along with a bunch of related products including Visual Studio 2026 and Aspire 13. Copilot Free is included but devs will soon ...

The Azure SQL team has released version 1.34.0 of the MSSQL extension for Visual Studio Code, a cross‑platform tool for developing against SQL Server, Azure SQL Database and SQL Database in Fabric.

Microsoft has released a new GitHub Copilot extension in public preview designed to help enterprise .NET developers modernize and migrate legacy applications to Azure. Integrated with Visual Studio ...

The System.Data.SQLite DDEX provider does not support Visual Studio 2017, 2019 and 2022. This post describes how to work with SQLite and Entity Framework 6 in Visual Studio 2017/2019/2022, using the ...

PolyBase, a data virtualization feature for SQL Server, allows users to seamlessly query data from various external sources directly using T-SQL (Transact-SQL) without the need for separate client ...

Take advantage of connection resiliency in EF Core to detect errors and retry commands and enable your ASP.NET Core application to overcome transient faults. A high-quality application must be stable, ...