SQL Server 2025 preview debuts with Ubuntu 24.04 support and TLS 1.3 encryption for stronger security and Linux flexibility.

You can use VB.NET or C# to write procedural code and create user-defined types and aggregates in SQL Server.

Microsoft has released the first release candidate for SQL Server 2025, touting AI capabilities and experimental features ...

ASP.NET sees the session cookie and loads the session (or doesn't, and starts a new one). This is why people recommend serving static, unauthenticated resources like images from a separate domain.

Well, optimization of SQL in general and VB/SQL (ADO.NET) apps in particular is a huge topic. There is quite a bit on MSDN if you search for it, including some information aimed directly at VB/C# ...

Take advantage of the open source library Serilog to log your ASP.NET Core application’s data to SQL Server or another database target.

In our last article we looked at System.Data in .NET Core 3.0. Now we turn our attention to System.Data.SqlClient, which is the SQL Server driver.