Microsoft has just added support for query hints to Azure SQL Database, giving database administrators a powerful tool to manage the performance of ISV application code. Here's how it works. Database ...

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 ...

To create an online database to display phone numbers, or any other stored data, you must move beyond basic HyperText Markup Language, referred to as HTML, and Cascading Style Sheets, or CSS. These ...

With connectors in Power Apps we can collect 2000 items at a time when we read data from lists and libraries. However with SQL Stored Procedures in Power Apps we have an option to avoid this limit!

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. As cloud storage becomes more common, data security is an increasing concern ...

Key-value, document-oriented, column family, graph, relational… Today we seem to have as many kinds of databases as there are kinds of data. While this may make choosing a database harder, it makes ...

To offer more Big Data analytics capabilities across its data-based ecosystem, Microsoft is updating various data platform components. Among a bevy of products and services receiving updates are key ...

Microsoft recently released a SQL Server 2008 add-in for MapPoint. MapPoint is Microsoft's business mapping application and gives users the power to visualize business data and communicate insights in ...