Today’s README file explains how to create connection strings to SQL Server databases using Visual Studio’s built-in tools. To provide an example using real source, I created a simple Winforms ...

Figure 1. A SQL Server query against the Northwind database executed in PowerShell. (Click image to view larger version.) Fig. 2 is that same query as executed in SSMS (yes, I finally did get it to ...

SSDT can be installed using Visual Studio 2017 by searching for “installer” in the Windows Start menu. The installer will ask you for what edition of Visual Studio you would like to add SSDT to, and ...

However, at some time in the development lifecycle, you'll undoubtedly want to browse the .SDF database file, on the device or on the development box, using SQL Server Management Studio 2005 because ...