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.

Microsoft announced a new data access driver for SQL Server that should be the path forward for data developers in the era of .NET Core.

Hmmm…think back to 2005, Microsoft is marketing its plans to release a new version of Microsoft SQL Server (2005) –remember how Microsoft executives were swearing ...

But Microsoft will only charge us for each socket in its “per processor” multi-core SQL Server licensing policy. With a new quad-core processor, we only have to pay for one processor license ...

The co-opetition among the world’s top cloud computing providers is becoming more pronounced. Google Inc. kicked it up another notch today by adding support for two of Microsoft Corp.’s most important ...