Connecting Visual Basic to SQL databases gives your applications the ability to store, retrieve, and update information dynamically. By setting up the right environment, using ADO.NET for database ...

Microsoft's Data API Builder is designed to help developers expose database objects through REST and GraphQL without building a full data access layer from scratch. In this Q&A, Steve Jones previews ...

Abstract: SQL and NoSQL databases have different data models and query languages, which can pose challenges when mapping between them for CRUD operations. Utilizing object database mapping can help ...

This week, we are excited to kick off SQLCon 2026 alongside FabCon in Atlanta. Bringing these SQL and Fabric communities together creates a unique opportunity to learn, connect, and share what’s next ...

Abstract: Databases are the fundamental component of an application for storing data. SQL (Structured Query Language) is a query language that is used to create, read, update, and remove records in ...

In December 2024, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella declared on the BG2 podcast that traditional business applications would “collapse” in the agent era. “They are essentially CRUD databases with a bunch of ...

Last year, Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Satya Nadella made the claim that “SaaS will dissolve into a bunch of agents” sitting on top of CRUD databases. In describing how software-as-a-service ...

Nearly half of the databases that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention used to update regularly — surveillance systems that tracked public health information like Covid vaccination rates and ...

The database is no longer just where data lives, but where context gets assembled. And in AI, context is everything. Developers have spent the past decade trying to forget databases exist. Not ...

This “dream wish list for criminals” includes millions of Gmail, Facebook, banking logins, and more. The researcher who discovered it suspects they were collected using infostealing malware. The ...