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

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.

HTML is only capable of instructing a browser on the method of presenting information. The transactions needed to store information in the database require Structured Query Language (SQL) commands ...

Applications that use the Jakarta Persistence API shouldn’t embed too much raw SQL in their code. However, when you need an SQL query for performance reasons or to access the database in a way that ...

Note: You can also use the MS SQL code if you first have Web Services define an ODBC DSN for your Oracle database. You will first need to create directory called includes and then create a file named ...

Tony Patton discusses the merits of stored procedures versus placing SQL directly in the code. Find out which one is best for your particular situation.

SQLite is designed to be fast, portable, and reliable, whether you’re storing only kilobytes of data or multi-gigabyte blobs. We'll take a look at SQLite, including where and when to use it and ...