Microsoft Corp. today is introducing updates across its database portfolio as part of general availability announcements for Azure DocumentDB and SQL Server 2025.

I have a database that's in 2 files, one ending in .MDF and one ending in .LDF. I did some research, and this appears to be a SQL Server database. I need to convert this to Access. I thought I would ...

The Microsoft OLE DB Provider is an SQL tool that enables developers to write code that provides an application with ADO access to an SQL database. The OLE DB Provider is not installed by default when ...

Create front ends for the Access DB. It will allow locking per-record instead of the entire db. I've heard that migration to SQL Server isn't that difficult either. I don't see why it would ever be a ...

I've been playing around with the new Microsoft service, currently in preview and it's time to show off what it can do. Have you ever struggled with a database performance problem or ever struggled to ...

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There is no shortage of opinion over Microsoft's efforts to point database developers away from its year-old LINQ to SQL data access method to its more recently released ADO.NET Entity Framework.

Microsoft Access is an reliable and easy-to-use tool for collecting and storing data such as customer contact lists, company inventory, personnel information and sales records. Information you stored ...