I'm new at this whole DBA thing, so maybe this is totally standard practice.<BR><BR>But we have a software vendor that wants remote access to our SQL server at an admin level to setup and install ...

Microsoft announced a new data access driver for SQL Server that should be the path forward for data developers in the era of .NET Core. As the traditional, Windows-only .NET Framework is basically ...

The launch of the Adabas SQL Gateway by Software AG has provided users with real-time access to Adabas from any SQL application. Neil Cave, Solutions Architect of Software AG South Africa, says there ...

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You don't have to give up using dynamic SQL just because you're using Entity Framework. The Entity Framework SqlQuery method will give you back the flexibility of dynamic SQL and still let you work ...

In Version 6, the SAS System's SQL procedure enabled you to retrieve and update data from DBMS tables and views. You could read and display DBMS data by specifying a ...

On Thursday, Google announced a whole series of database and data analytics improvements to its cloud data architecture. In this article, we'll focus on the substantial improvements to Spanner and ...

SQL Server has a long list of roles for server, database, and applications that outline things like permissions, data selection and modification, and disk management. Examine how roles play a part in ...

If you are interested in the fastest performance, don't use Access as a front-end to a SQL Server database. While Access is relatively easy to learn and fast to develop in, its performance is poor ...

Damian Black, SQLstream CEO, stopped by to introduce his company, discuss a few industry trends, and introduce the company's s-Server 3.0. Here's a summary of our interesting conversation: SQLstream ...